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aggregation
A group of individuals, comprising more than just a mated pair or a family, that has gathered in the same place but does not construct nests or rear offspring in a cooperative manner; as opposed to colony.
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male aggregation syndrome
The mating pattern in which males from different nests gather in a group and queens join them to be inseminated.
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aggregation
1. Several things grouped together or considered as a whole.
2. The act of gathering something together.
3. A group or mass of distinct or varied things, people, etc.
4. In biology, a group of organisms of the same, or different species, living closely together but less integrated than a society.
(Greek: clot, lump; aggregation of blood factors)