| 1. | Gonophores may remain attached to the parent colony, but usually become detached.
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| 2. | Parent colony workers dwindle, usually leaving the nest to die, as does the foundress queen.
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| 3. | Adult reproductives leave the parent colony to mate.
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| 4. | They fly out from their parent colony in search of other colonies where virgin queens wait for them.
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| 5. | The actual " take off " from the parent colony is also often synchronized to overwhelm their predators.
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| 6. | The males and virgin queens mate and the queens then often return to the parent colony, where they then remain.
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| 7. | New colonies are established in a slow process, when the number of worker bees exceed 500 or 600 individuals in the parent colony.
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| 8. | When mature, these larvae exit the atrial siphon of the adult and then settle close to the parent colony ( often within meters ).
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| 9. | Sometimes this new growth gets separated from the parent colony, and a new colony of fire coral is formed, genetically identical to the original one.
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| 10. | At times of stress, another form of asexual reproduction takes place that may allow some of the polyps to survive even though the parent colony dies.
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