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Meaning of "foundresses"
foundresses (noun) - the female founders or initial leaders of a community or organization
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- plural of foundress
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How female foundresses heal with technology.
Perpetual profession of the three foundresses.
Our foundresses were feminists before their time.
Females that have overwintered and then initiated a nest in spring are called foundresses.
The two foundresses refuse these propositions.
This particular behavior is more common amongst foundresses who occupy larger nests.
The three foundresses make profession.
They are begun by one or few queens who have already mated called foundresses.
Both foundresses and their progeny will help reconstruct a nest.
The water content of the substrate in which foundresses build the nest is highly important.
The remaining foundresses will be subordinate and do work to help the colony.
Others who showed solidarity with them also joined the holy foundresses in prison.
The fertile foundresses live through the winter and build a nest in the beginning of May.
Females sometimes adopt these abandoned nests and take over queenship in variable numbers of foundresses.
Exclamans are particularly able to colonize new sites as foundresses often disperse into new territories.
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Today the Sisters of the Resurrection strive to live the spirit of their Foundresses.
Arrival in Oregon of the twelve SNJM foundresses of the first distant mission.
Between the two windows, we see the portrait of another of our foundresses.
Founders and Foundresses.
For the foundresses in particular, each day their distribution of behavior is codified by time.
Arrival in California of six SNJM foundresses.
During these visits, foundresses were also observed to lay eggs in other nests.
Therefore, association provides significant productivity and survival advantages for cooperating foundresses.
Nesting is annual with single, overwintered foundresses initiating new nests in spring.
There can be more than one laying foundress in colonies with more than 20 foundresses.
In the springtime, mated females called foundresses join together in groups to start a new nest.
This brass instrument was reportedly brought from France by the three foundresses in 1639.
Nests with four or more foundresses have an 80 % chance of success.
Foundresses will on average lay 9.6 eggs in their first brood.
However, selective pressure tends to eliminate any additional foundresses once workers emerge.
Gynes mate before overwintering and, if successful, become foundresses for the next season.
Due to this system of reproduction, genetic relatedness among nestmate foundresses is about 0.75.
