plesiobiosis

plural plesiobioses

1. countableuncountableA close nesting association between two or more colonies of social insects with little actual interaction.

   Scarcity of sites suitable for nesting promotes plesiobiosis in ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).

   2004, Entomologica Fennica, page 211

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   This trophic parasitism is thought to have arisen from plesiobiosis, the habitual nesting of two species in very close proximity.

   1995, R.T. Carde, William J. Bell, Chemical Ecology of Insects 2, →ISBN, page 395

   More than half of the observed cases of plesiobioses were recorded in Finland and Poland, due to the intensive myrmecological researches in these countries (Czechowski 2002, 2003, 2004a, b, 2005, Czechowski & Czechowska 2000, Czechowski & Vepsäläinen 1999, Włodarczyk et al. )

   2014, L Gallé, O Kanizsai, I Maák, G Lőrinczi, “Close Nesting Association of Two Ant Species in Artifical Shelters: Results From a Long-term Experiment”, in Acta Zoologica Hungarica, volume 60, number 4