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3 days ago · Brood Care. Ant workers are responsible for caring for the young ants, also known as brood. They will feed the brood, clean them, and protect them from predators. Ant workers will also move the brood to different locations within the nest to ensure their safety and well-being. Defense. Ant workers are the first line of defense for the colony.
3 days ago · Millions of periodical cicadas are poised to rise from the ground in the east-central United States this summer as part of the massive Brood X emergence. The cicadas in this brood are all three species of 17-year periodical cicadas: Magicicada septendecim (shown here), M. cassini and M. septendecula. A new study published in the Annals of the Entomological Society of America centers on Brood ...
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1 day ago · The number of ducklings in a mother’s brood also impacts how long she will care for them. Mothers with larger broods (8-12 ducklings) will often stay with them longer to make sure enough survive. However, for smaller broods with only 2-4 ducklings, the mother may abandon them sooner , after 4-6 weeks, since they have better odds of surviving ...
5 days ago · Brood XIX is a 13-year brood, which means they emerge every 13 years, but most cicada broods in the United States emerge every 17 years. This year sees the simultaneous emergence of one of those 17-year broods, Brood XIII, in the northern United States, with some overlap between the two broods in Illinois.
4 days ago · Brian Broom. Mississippi Clarion Ledger. 0:04. 1:07. The historic cicada emergence is underway when two groups, Brood XIX and XIII, come up from the ground simultaneously for the first time in ...
1 day ago · Brood parasitism, in which an egg-layer leaves her eggs with another individual's brood, is more common among birds than any other type of organism. After a parasitic bird lays her eggs in another bird's nest, they are often accepted and raised by the host at the expense of the host's own brood.
3 days ago · Northern Illinois will see Brood XIII, the Northern Illinois Brood, which is on a 17-year cycle. While neither of these broods overlap in their distribution, the co-emergence this year is an ...
