Colony shape

A mining colony?

The colony declared independence.

It's a French colony.

It's a slave colony.

What about the colony transmitters?

Kenya used to be a British colony.

Zimbabwe was once a colony of Britain.

This is a three year old colony.

So, things happen to an ant colony.

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

At one time Nigeria was a British colony.

The colony declared independence and became a republic.

The colony has not declared independence as yet.

You'd like to see a colony on Mars.

It's about a meter tall Pavona clavus colony.

We've lost contact with the colony on LV426.

The corporation cofinanced that colony with Colonial Administration.

And it would change as the colony gets larger.

The eastern side continued to be a Spanish colony.

This is called colony collapse disorder, and it's bizarre.

Takes decades. It's what we call a shake'n'bake colony.

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

In an ant colony, there are dramatic divisions of labor.

like in Fiordland, where this sea pen colony was found.

Ferro, take us in low over the main colony complex.

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

The simplest idea is that when an ant is in a small colony and an ant in a large colony can use the same rule,

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

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

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

They want to re assert their control over their former colony.

And colony collapse disorder is not the only thing affecting honeybees.

Dumbledore sent him off to Romania to live in 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.

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 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.

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.

There's something bigger which is the colony of humans connected in this way.

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.