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The broods of workers that appear later tend to be bigger than the first ones, probably because they are better fed.
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Brood X ( Brood 10 ), the Great Eastern Brood, is one of 15 broods of periodical cicadas that appear regularly throughout the eastern United States.
Although sex ratios of the broods are balanced, adult populations tend to be largely female, as males appear to suffer higher rates of mortality due to a greater susceptibility to predators and disease as a consequence of their brighter colours and a life devoted to frenzied breeding.
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As the nestlings grow, the female broods them, and later on assists in providing food.
The female incubates the eggs for 16 to 19 days to hatching, and broods the chicks, which fledge in a further 17 to 22 days later.
The female incubates the eggs for 14. 5 to 16. 5 days to hatching, and broods the chicks, which fledge eight to ten days later.
In Hoatzins, some birds ( mostly males ) help their parents incubate later broods.
Young may stay with their parents for up to three years, helping to raise later broods.
Two, sometimes three, broods are produced each year and the adults are on the wing in April and May ( sometimes earlier ), July and August, and sometimes later in the autumn.
The goddess who sinks down into the material may readily be identified with Ruach ( רוח ), the Spirit of God, who broods over Chaos, or even with the later Chokhmah, who was generally conceived of as a world-creating agent.
Some of the later broods move southwards in the fall.
The female initially broods with the male bringing food and later the male takes over.
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Second broods tend to have smaller clutches.
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Defoliated catalpas produce new leaves readily, but with multiple generations occurring, new foliage may be consumed by subsequent broods.
Second broods are common, with the female reusing the same nest if the brood was successful, and three broods may be raised in the south of the Common Blackbird's range.
Two or three broods in a year is normal, although only one may be raised in the north of the range.
Two broods, sometimes three, may be reared in a season.
Anywhere up to four broods may be raised during this time.
In southern parts of the range there may be two broods each year, but northern insects are inhibited by long summer daylength from breeding a second time.
Some late broods may be 2nd nesting attempts, but there is only 1 report in the literature of a 2nd brood attempt after a successful nest.
However, broodless hens moved to meadows earlier in summer and used a greater diversity of cover types than hens with broods perhaps because dietary needs of broodless hens might be less specific than those of hens with broods.
The clutch consists of 3-6 speckled eggs and multiple broods may be raised with declining numbers in the clutch in subsequent broods.
Two broods can be raised in a single nesting season.
Usually, two broods are attempted, although three to four separate nests may be built before a pair succeeds.
Two or more broods may be laid in an extended breeding season.
Two broods may be raised during the breeding season.
* Kin selection: since subsequent litters or broods from the same parents will be full siblings to the helpers, they are as closely related genetically as their own offspring would be.
Two or three broods may be raised in succession.
Breeding occurs from September to January where two broods can be produced.
Either one or two broods are produced each year and the species can be seen on the wing any time from June to September, flying at night and sometimes coming to light.
Incubation takes 16 – 17 days, and fledging another 19-23, and there may be up to three broods in a season.
The species has an exceptionally long flying season spanning two or three broods, and the adults can be seen any time from April to October.
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Nestlings from second broods have weaker immune systems and body condition than those from first broods, and hence have a lower juvenile survival rate.
The number of live chicks hatched is more important than the weather, with lower survival in large broods.
In Oregon, the greater sage-grouse hens at Jackass Creek selectively used sites with forb cover greater than typically found there and similar to that generally available to broods at Hart Mountain National Antelope Refuge.
Among opportunistic species such as the Roseate Tern, research has found that parent birds involved in kleptoparasitism are more successful in raising broods than non-kleptoparasitic individuals.
Like other arowanas, it is a mouthbrooder, but unlike the Asian Arowana, reports suggest the female rather than the male broods the young in her mouth.
There is some evidence that not only to groups cooperate in raising the young, not an uncommon strategy in birds, but have a plural breeding system, where more than one pair inside the group nest, and the group help raise both broods.
( 2009 ) both observed the greatest number of sharp-tailed grouse broods present in open, rather than wooded landscapes.
One study on infected woodlice showed the broods of infected organisms had a higher proportion of females than their uninfected counterparts.
The number of live chicks hatched is more important than the weather, with lower survival in large broods.
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In exceptionally good conditions, they raise two broods a year, and if the first clutch is destroyed before hatching they are usually able to produce a second one.
For the first two weeks or so the female broods the chicks constantly, both day and night.
The female broods the chicks during the first four days after hatching.
The first broods yield the smallest adults.
It has two broods in a year, the first is on the wing in May and June and the second in August.
It has two broods in the north and three to four in the south, with the first brood being the most numerous.
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