Assertion: fire ant's queen | /r/CapableOf | begin the colony
Facets:
value: most of the time
type: TEMPORAL
value: by building a small nest
type: MANNER
value: by collecting 300 million sperms
type: MANNER
value: in the spring
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: The queen, a fertilized female, begins the colony in the spring by building a small nest and laying eggs that hatch into workers.
text: The queen sets up the colony by collecting 300 million sperms.
text: Most of the time, a single queen will start her own colony and lay eggs that will take around 44 to 61 days to fully develop and emerge as adults, but colonies can also be founded through multiple queens cooperating with each other, adoption into an existing colony, or "budding" (also called "satelliting" or "fractionating"), where a subset of the colony including queens, workers and brood (eggs, larvae and pupae) leave the main colony for an alternative nest site.