The nests of Andrena, for example, are haunted by the black and yellow species of Nomada, whose femaleslay their eggs in the food provided for the larva of the Andrena.
One species of Halictus nearly reaches the desired stage; but the first young bees to appear in the perfect state are males, and when the females emerge the mother dies.
The young females ("workers") that develop from the eggs laid in these early cells assist the queen by building fresh cells and gathering food for storage therein.
In speaking of Plutarch he had brightened up for a moment, and his eye had even flashed; but his general manner was as unlike what youthful females expect in a Pope as you can conceive.
Two of the females had been for some time past putting their heads together and casting glances at Marcia.
Nay, I shall propose to thee to stay forty-eight hours there while I kiss my mother and sisters, and the females generally, and on go you and I together to the sea.
Then the females whispered together: and Catherine said--"All our talk e'en now was of Gerard.
But on some topics females can flash communication to female like lightning, or thought itself.
But the females did not seize the opportunity he gave them, and burst into a loud and general disclaimer.
It seems improbable that differences in temperature account for the 20-day disparity between maximum and minimum incubation time, in these females kept under similar conditions.
In the present study clutches unattended by females were observed to sustain heavy losses, both in the laboratory and in the field, and no doubt the attending female performs important functions other than that of warming the eggs.
Except for females in their nest burrows individuals were not ordinarily recaptured regularly at the same hiding places.
By August the adult males, and the second year young (by then approaching adult size) were found in still smaller numbers, but the number of hatchlings and of adult femalesapproximated those recorded in July.
In many femalesdissected for the purpose of obtaining egg counts, ovulation had not yet occurred.
There were 22 eggs in the combined clutch, and there were two females in the vicinity.
Females that had already laid before discovery of their nests were somewhat less inclined to desert, but many did so.
He exhibited no interest in the females and was less pugnacious toward other males than were the individuals in breeding condition.
It is not clear whether femalesthat do not have nests range less widely than males.
Brooding females in the latter part of the incubation period have the supply of caudal fat most noticeably depleted, and their tails may appear emaciated, with kinks on the terminal portion.
Such desertions were noted many times in the females observed on the study area, where the disturbance from my own activities in raising the sheltering rocks may have caused shifts, but it was probably not the sole motivation.
In brooding females a tendency to sluggishness, and an affinity for the eggs delayed the usually speedy escape reactions.
In almost every great class a few anomalous cases occur, where there has been an almost complete transposition of the characters proper to the two sexes; the females assuming characters which properly belong to the males.
They are ornamented with infinitely diversified appendages and with the most brilliant or conspicuous colors, often arranged in elegant patterns, while the females are unadorned.
But it is possible that he intended to imply that the beauty of some females was insurmountable by bad taste in dress.
Well, at any rate we two timid females followed the stronger members of the exploring party out into the main hall, where we encountered Wilkes.
She was sur-intendante de la maison de la Reine, and, from her attachment to Marie Antoinette, was one of the first females who fell a victim to the fury of the French revolution.
Every series, even when incomplete, begins with females and ends with males.
A series of seven: six females followed by one male.
Lastly, from the 26th to the 30th of May, a fifth tube, which she colonizes with twofemales and three males.
Finally, whatever the contents of the small tube may be, those of the large one, following upon it, never vary and consist of females at the back and males in front.
Three females and two males are housed in this way, the sexes alternating.
Females were succeeded by males and these by females without its being possible for me to make out any regular sequence.
The fact remains that females, females exclusively, have come out of the eggs laid in May.
So the females come first and the males at the finish.
In the long tubes, entire or almost entire layings, with a series of females followed by a series of males, were deposited.
When the nest is new, I think I see a reason why the Mason-bee should seriate her laying into females and then males.
The conclusion is definite: the laying of the Three-horned Osmia consists of two distinct groups, first a group of females and then a group of males.
The deep central cells receive only the females of the Osmia; sometimes even the two sexes together, with a partition in the middle, the female occupying the lower and the male the upper storey.
From the 17th to the 25th of May, a third tube, with three females and then two males.
The spring one consists of females only; the summer one comprises both males and females, in almost equal numbers.
The woman curtseyed to me, and I thought I recognised the elder of the two Irish females whom I had seen in the tent on the green meadow near Chester.
The females remained for some time speechless; all of a sudden, however, their anger kindled, not against the bard, but against each other.
The door was open, and inside were two or three females and some children.
When thefemales have become fecundated and enlarged, the harvest commences.
In most wine farm-houses there is a verdigris cellar; and its principal operations are conducted by the females of the family.
Three harvests are made annually; the first being the best, since the impregnated females alone are taken; in the second the youngfemales are also collected; and in the third both old and young ones, and skins are collected indiscriminately.
Of all the classes of females who thus devote themselves to a religious life, and to acts of charity, none are more respected, or more truly serviceable to their fellow-creatures.
Females average larger than males in all members of this family.
Males and females cannot be differentiated by any feature of coloration.
Sexual dimorphism is evident in the number of subcaudals; there are, on the average, fewer subcaudals in females than in males of each subspecies.
Differences always exist in the number of subcaudals and in the tail/body ratio; males have more subcaudals and relatively longer tails than do females (table 3).
He rejoices on the death of women, and the sun has her revenge on the death of men; all males therefore keep within doors during an eclipse of the sun, and females during that of the moon.
Max Müller thinks that the distinction between males and females began, "not with the introduction of masculine nouns, but with the introduction of feminines, i.
These in certain cases are very different from both males and females in structure and in social instincts.
Characters appropriate both to males and to females are transmitted either by eggs or by spermatozoa.
Females have been killed with young ones hanging to the nipple, about half an inch long -- the form not fully developed, a mere foetus, presenting no appearance of active vitality.
Each male is entitled to all the females who are related to him in a certain degree.
In the cities there are proportionally more than twice as many educated females as in the whole country.
At night howe'er the horn was heard once more, And terrified the females as before.
The males precede the females by a few days; the latter bringing with them the young that have been bred that year.
At this period the auk resorted to the rocks, in the dark recesses of which the females deposited one large egg--large even for the size of the bird.
Where a greater number of eggs than this is found, it is probable that two females have laid in the same nest.
Even those ordinary common-place females who make the dresses and trim the hats of the creatures our men adore, even these do their inner selves more violence in one short day than a man endures for a life time.
Well, I hope you're ready at last, dear knows it does take a time for you females to get out of your finery," Henry Rayne said in assumed impatience.
Tribes in which the hair of the women is differently arranged from that of men often denote their females by corresponding gesture.
The priory and its estates have passed in regular succession through females from its founder, Gilbert Basset, to the Stanleys, and it is now one of the possessions of the Earl of Derby.
In size, the standard calls for males 45 pounds, females a little less.
At first the males tried tailoring, the females needlework.
It was the same then as now: the means of coercion to be employed against females are limited in the extreme, and a really bad woman can never be tamed, though she may in time wear herself out by her violence.
One other case of misconduct among the females which occurred some months afterward may be mentioned here.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "females" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
