colonies
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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
In eusocial colonies, reproduction is divided between queens and workers, creating highly cooperative societies with specialized roles.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
Wainwright has been searching for new English colonies since he started working for Butterfly Conservation in 2004.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
France and Britain housed small communities from former colonies—an immigration pattern so mundane that 1960s France let citizens of former West African colonies fly into Paris without a passport.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
With the Proclamation of 1763. the British Crown established what it considered a clear boundary for its colonies along the Atlantic Coast.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
