myrmecophily
Britishnoun
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symbiosis with ants
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pollination of plants by ants
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With so many cases of myrmecophily, you have to wonder what it is that biases Pselaphinae and Aleocharinae to this ant-centric way of life.
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
We can treat each instance of myrmecophily these beetles show as a kind of independent “experimental replicate”.
From Scientific American • Dec. 10, 2012
What both pselaphines and aleocharines show is that species that exhibit an advanced state of myrmecophily tend to demonstrate analogous elaborate morphological and behavioural modifications.
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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