Colony shape

Leper Colony.

A nudist colony?

This is a nudist colony.

He is important to the colony.

But what beekeepers can do is, if they have one surviving colony, they can split that colony in two.

This is a three year old colony.

So, things happen to an ant colony.

Zimbabwe was once a colony of Britain.

Kenya used to be a British colony.

It's about a meter tall Pavona clavus colony.

At one time Nigeria was a British colony.

You've got 12 hours to leave the colony.

The Leper Colony. How do you like it?

Baxter is promoted out of the Leper Colony.

So, the ants in the older colony that seem to be more stable are not any older than the ants in the younger colony.

And it would change as the colony gets larger.

Some say that China was like a Russian colony.

And will I let her remain in the colony?

Well, may as well get back to the colony.

Why don't we colonize at the Colony next week?

For 2,500 years we've been nothing but a colony.

And I know how colony size changes as a function of colony age because I've dug up colonies of known age and counted all the ants.

It feels like I've landed in a colony of angels.

This process changes with colony age, and it changes like this.

I started with the 1607 Massachusetts Bay Colony Pequot Indian Wars.

Makes it a lot easier to put a colony up there.

Puerto Rico was no more a colony than Alaska and Hawaii.

A century later, Puerto Rico was still a United States colony.

This movement intensified as Portugal consolidated its control over the colony.

Well, he's known as the White Saint of the Leper Colony.

And then this is how colony size and numbers of worker ants changes so this is about 10,000 worker ants changes as a function of colony age, in years.

So this is the kind of rule that, as the colony develops and gets older and larger, will produce different behavior in an old colony and a small young one.

And that lower photo, that's a bird colony that has been boomed.

So this is the colony founded by a queen the previous summer.

And that lower photo, that's a bird colony that has been boomed.

And so this opens up the whole idea of looking at colony health.

This is the nest of the mature colony, and there's the nest entrance.

So I want to tell you about the life cycle of a colony.

So this is a one year old colony this happens to be 536.

Instead, something about the organization must be changing as the colony gets older.

I used your brother's name at The Colony to get the darkest corner!

There's a leper colony there and I'm going to teach the sick children.

But there's a big difference, which is that it only happens within the colony.

So that's only about 25 percent of the colony, and they're the oldest ants.