Sentence examples for social colonies from inspiring English sources

They lived in highly social colonies, and killing them didn't work.

Unlike ordinary honeybees, whose ancestors were imported mainly from Europe, miners don't live in social colonies or hives.

The few social colonies that we do find are of a single species and much smaller than usual.

Under the continuing anti-Chinese pressure, Chinatowns were established in urban cities, where the Chinese could retreat into their own cultural and social colonies.

Indeed, our working hypothesis is that the advantage of cooperative defense against competitors is a major driver of the evolution of social colonies among these reef shrimp.

Insects that live in dense social colonies like ants and bees are vulnerable to such fungal diseases.

Parallel with increased exploitation the number of cheaters a social colony can support decreases.

Cheaters thus benefited from the altruism of social colony members without contributing equally.

Cheating and stronger forms of exploitation can undermine the stability of social groups and can even lead to the extinction of a social colony [ 63].

P. discolor thrives in captivity and has become a well-established model for psychoacoustic research due to their highly social colony structure and complex innate and learned vocalisations [ 7, 14].

A comparison with the bumblebee genome might therefore reveal common patterns resulting from the phylogenetically close relationship, but also differences due to different social colony structures and ecologies of honeybees and bumblebees.