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- especially : the young (as of a bird or insect) hatched or cared for at one time
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The meaning of BROOD is the young of an animal or a family of young; especially : the young (as of a bird or insect) hatched or cared for at one time. How to use brood in a sentence. The Eggy History of Brood.
Jul 2, 2023 · Contents. What is Nurse Bee Care and How Does it Affect Brood Development? Understanding the Pupa Metamorphosis Stage in Colony Development. Worker Bee Emergence: Key Milestone in the Brood Rearing Cycle. Varroa Mite Infestation and its Impact on Bee Brood Survival. Exploring the Complexities of the Honeybee’s Brood Rearing Cycle.
Jan 1, 2016 · Definition. Any form of care that a parent devotes to their offspring at the benefit of the offspring fitness, which typically involves a cost to the parent, in terms of time and/or resource expenditure.
- cristina.lorenzi@leec.univ-paris13.fr
Mar 31, 2015 · The discovery of the earliest direct evidence of brood care in insects demonstrates a remarkably conserved egg-brooding reproductive strategy within scale insects in stasis for nearly 100 million years.
- Bo Wang, Fangyuan Xia, Torsten Wappler, Ewa Simon, Haichun Zhang, Edmund A Jarzembowski, Jacek Szwed...
- 2015
Eusocial animals share the following four characteristics: adults live in groups, cooperative care of juveniles (individuals care for brood that is not their own), reproductive division of labor...
Brood, litter refer to young creatures. Brood is especially applied to the young of fowls and birds hatched from eggs at one time and raised under their mother's care: a brood of young turkeys. Litter is applied to a group of young animals brought forth at a birth: a litter of kittens or pups.
It is defined by the following characteristics: cooperative brood care (including care of offspring from other individuals), overlapping generations within a colony of adults, and a division of labor into reproductive and non-reproductive groups.
