brood
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These bees wait until A. regularis females have prepared brood cells underground before laying their own eggs inside them.
From Science Daily • May 28, 2026
The past has not quite closed in—he and we will be left to brood about journeys made and not made.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
Then there was his promise to build her a dance studio on their massive estate; he turned it into a schoolhouse for their growing brood of children.
From Salon • Apr. 8, 2026
Bees developing in the center of the brood experienced about 1.7 hours per day below optimal temperatures and roughly 1.6 hours above that range.
From Science Daily • Jan. 13, 2026
Luke came in next, with a brood so numerous I lost count.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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