myrmecophile
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For most organisms, the path to becoming a myrmecophile must simply be too challenging, the ant fortress too impenetrable.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 10, 2012
If you’re lucky enough to spend some time with a myrmecoid army ant myrmecophile, you’ll see it grooming the workers, procuring colony-specific odours that they rub over themselves.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 10, 2012
The genus is a few paces behind clavigerines on the myrmecophile road, but you can see how it’s converging on the same body plan as Diartiger.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 10, 2012
So why don’t more arthropods join the myrmecophile club?
From Scientific American ● Dec. 10, 2012
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