myrmecophily
Britishnoun
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symbiosis with ants
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pollination of plants by ants
Example Sentences
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Sharing the same habitat probably makes the shift to myrmecophily much easier, but can’t itself explain the propensity to do so.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 10, 2012
We can treat each instance of myrmecophily these beetles show as a kind of independent “experimental replicate”.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 10, 2012
One small scuffle for a beetle, one giant leap along the path to myrmecophily.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 10, 2012
What these traits—these preadaptations—are, we cannot be sure of at this time, but let us speculate: we suggest that both aleocharines and pselaphines possess preadaptations to myrmecophily engendered by their respective defence mechanisms.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 10, 2012
Trophibiosis, is the relationship between ants on the one hand and aphids, coccids and the like on the other; these species being sought and attended by the ants for their own benefit: see myrmecophily.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.
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