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"She keeps the colony alive, so understanding how pesticides can affect queen bees and also her offspring is important."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026

The stars of this "penguin parade" are from a wild colony on the island, numbering up to 40,000 seabirds at the height of the breeding season in the southern hemisphere's spring and summer.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

In “Empire and Frontier,” Samuel Marquis focuses on the conflict’s tumultuous consequences for England’s colony of New York, and for its northern neighbors, the Five Nations of the Iroquois, or Haudenosaunee.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

Lucy Roche, volunteer branch leader for Cat Action Trust 1977, external, came across the ginger cat, called Ginge, while caring for a feral colony in Garforth, and noticed he was very tame.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

The only discouraging news is that they have seen no sign of survivors from the Roanoke colony.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone

Honeybee queens can produce 1,500 to 2,000 eggs every day, supplying colonies with the workers needed to keep the hive functioning.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026

The results suggest that combining pollen from different plants and then processing it through nurse bees may allow honeybee colonies to compensate for the nutritional shortcomings of individual pollen sources.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026

Ranged across what is now upstate New York, the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas and Senecas had recently forged a “covenant chain” of alliance with several English colonies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

Emily Burton, conservation manager, said: "Gannet populations have suffered significant declines, and many colonies are still recovering from the impacts of avian influenza."

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

They are important to a nation—like Britain or Spain—when it plans to set up colonies in an area.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz