Assertion: fire ant's queen | /r/CapableOf | mate with male
Facets:
value: from different colonies
type: OTHER
value: from two separate lineages
type: OTHER
value: during a nuptial flight
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: The life cycle starts when the queen mates with a male.
text: A female and potential queen needs to mate with several males then return to the ground to find a place to start her fungus garden and begin a future colony.
text: Queens are polyandrous, meaning that queens can mate more than once; queens mate with one to nine males during a nuptial flight, and the effective number of mates per queen ranges from 1.0 to 11.4.
text: The queen grows to be an adult, mates with a male, then spends the rest of her life laying eggs.
text: To found a successful colony, P. barbatus queens must mate with males from two separate lineages.
text: The ants take to the skies so that queens can mate with males from different colonies, and set up new nests of their own.
text: The ants take to the skies so that queens can mate with males from different colonies, and set up new nests of their own.