Meaning of heteroecious | Babel Free

Definitions

Of dependent organisms, spending portions of the life cycle on different types of hosts.

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“The heterœcious character of the Atemeles, which are compelled twice during their life time to change their normal hosts, once in the spring when they migrate for reproductive purposes from Myrmica to Formica, to have their larva reared by the latter, and once in the summer or autumn, when they migrate from Formica to Myrmica for the purpose of hibernating, enables us to explain the greater active perfection of their symphily, their greater initiative towards the ants, and the close imitation of their behavior.”

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