myrmecophily

British  

/ ˌmɜːmɪˈkɒfɪlɪ /

noun

1. symbiosis with ants

2. pollination of plants by ants

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Example Sentences

The fossil was encased in a piece of amber from India and is the oldest known example of a kind of social parasitism known as myrmecophily.

From New York Times

He is interested in developing model organisms and tools to study myrmecophily at the molecular genetic level.

From Scientific American

Studying them, and their inherent bias towards myrmecophily, may tell us a lot about this mode of life and how it evolves.

From Scientific American

We can treat each instance of myrmecophily these beetles show as a kind of independent “experimental replicate”.

From Scientific American

With enough replicates, a picture emerges of what usually happens as these beetles crawl along the evolutionary path, from free-living to an advanced state of myrmecophily.

From Scientific American