This condition is known as colony collapse disorder or CCD.

Though these hardy Pilgrims loom large in the American imagination, they never built their Plymouth settlement into a major colony.

In nearby Boston, the later colony of Massachusetts Bay grew so much faster that it swallowed up the great-grandchildren of the Pilgrims in 1691.

So we decided to try to develop it in the whole colony!

its place in the colony.

...using Taiwan as an economic colony. The Chinese workers were afforded land and the ability to settle.

150 years later, Britain seized it, and named it "Cape Colony."

Just like the Dutch, the British used Cape Colony as a strategic location for trade; it wasn't economically significant.

In its early days, it was a small artist colony, but now, it's a relaxed bayside community filled with cafés and art galleries.

In its early days it was a small artist colony,

A bowl of cream topped with drizzled raw honey straight from the bee colony I'm friends with, and a handful of wizzle berries.

straight from the bee colony I'm friends with,

Second, look at the CFUs⏤that's the colony-forming units.

That's the colony-forming units.

It's less likely a single mutated clone will succeed in a colony, versus the constant trial and error of all of these sexual organisms.

will succeed in a colony, versus the constant trial-and-error of sexual organism.

and Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli, and one on a colony in Italy,

A colony of 10,000 people.