The remnant colony after having cast one or more swarms is usually well provisioned with food, but the new queen can be lost or eaten by predators during her mating flight, or poor weather can prevent her mating flight.
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The remnant colony after having cast one or more swarms is usually well provisioned with food, but the new queen can be lost or eaten by predators during her mating flight, or poor weather can prevent her mating flight.
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Modern " Acropyga " are thought to be fully reliant on mealy bug species as their source of food and reproductive only emerge from the nest during the mating flight, each carrying a seed bug in their mandibles.
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Some recent scholars have compared the legendary roc with the Haast's eagle, of New Zealand . long with a wingspan, it became extinct around the 15th century, but probably inspired the roaring sound with their tails during mating flights.
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This idea is called " Stand-Ins " and based on a concept McCaffrey introduced in Dragonseye / Red Star Rising, in which a female green rider objects to the idea of a specific bronze rider winning her green's mating flight.
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The hive will produce a new queen who will then take a mating flight, and it is during this mating flight that drones from the wild Africanized colony will manage to mate with the European queen, almost always resulting in the Africanization of the existing colony.
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The hive will produce a new queen who will then take a mating flight, and it is during this mating flight that drones from the wild Africanized colony will manage to mate with the European queen, almost always resulting in the Africanization of the existing colony.
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At 1350 hours on 5 December 1917, he destroyed a German Albatros D . V fighter aircraft . Five minutes later, he helped squadron mate Flight Sub-Lieutenant Wilfred Harry Sneath drive down another Albatros D . V out of control for his second victory.
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In addition, sex with a person other than a weyrmate during a mating flight is not considered to be " cheating . " This behavior is considered anathema to the Holders ( who are very conservative in their morals ) and, to a lesser degree, the Crafters.
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Two fairly large dragonflies ( I'm guessing common hawkers, but I'm no expert ) were performing what I assumed was a mating flight, riding piggyback intermittently along the edge of a small lake ( however, this indicates it's not nearly so straightforward as I thought ).
