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phor·e·sy

(fôr′ĭ-sē)

An association between two species in which one transports the other, for example when a mite attaches to a beetle and is carried to a new food source.

[New Latin phorēsia, from Greek phorēsis, a carrying; see -phoresis.]

pho·ret′ic (fə-rĕt′ĭk) adj.

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phoresy

(ˈfɒrəsɪ)

(Zoology) an association in which one animal clings to another to ensure movement from place to place, as some mites use some insects

[C20: from New Latin phoresia, from Greek phorēsis, from pherein to carry]

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Phoresy (Beier 1948) is a type of passive transportation that involves attachment of a non-vagile individual to a selected carrier from a different species.

Phoretic or not? Phylogeography of the pseudoscorpion Chernes hahnii (Pseudoscorpiones: Chernetidae)

The transportation of one animal by another is known as phoresy (Walter and Proctor 1999).

Primer registro de acaros (Arachnida: Acari) foreticos y parasitos asociados con moscas necrofagas en Brasil

These small arachnids establish a form of commensal relationship with other arthropods called "phoresy," in which they attach themselves to the body of a larger animal (usually another arthropod) and are carried to another area or environment (Poinar, Curcic, & Cokendolpher, 1998; Szymkowiak, Gorski, & Bajerlein, 2007).

Report of Sphenochernes camponoti (Beier, 1970) (Pseudoscorpiones, Chernetidae) in phoresy on Fanniidae (Diptera)/Relato de Sphenochernes camponoti (Beier, 1970) (Pseudoscorpiones, Chernetidae) em foresia em Fanniidae (Diptera)

Short distance dispersal occurs by wind or by "hitch-hiking" (phoresy) on mammals, birds, or large insects (Heu et al.

First report of Aulacaspis yasumatsui (Hemiptera: Diaspididae) in Mexico

Phoresy on the aquatic coleoptera: helophoridae and hydrophilidae species in lake Van basin, Turkey.

Faunistic Study on Dytiscidae, Haliplidae and Noteridae (Coleoptera: Adephaga) in Middle and Eastern Black Sea Regions, Turkey

Biologically, transport by birds or other animals (zoochory), humans (anthropochory) (Barber 2009) or the host itself (phoresy) (Strand 1986; Austin et al.

Distributional range of the South African maritime spider-egg parasitoid wasp, Echthrodesis lamorali (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae: Scelioninae)

Although in some studies an interspecific relationship and harmonic phoresy between mites and bees has been observed (Eickwort, 1997), it is not possible to determine whether the relationship of T.

First report in Brazil of Tyrophagus putrescentiae (Schrank) (Acari: Acaridae) in colonies of Africanized honey bees (Apis mellifera L.)/Primer reporte en Brasil de Tyrophagus putrescentiae (Schrank) (Acari: Acaridae) en colonias of abejas meliferas africanizadas (Apis mellifera L.)/Primeiro relato no Brasil de Tyrophagus putrescentiae (Schrank) (Acari: Acaridae) em colonias de abelhas africanizadas (Apis mellifera L.)

Only one previous case of phoresy (the transportation of one organism by another) has been recorded for springtails.

16m-yr-old amber specimen reveals 'unknown animal behaviours'

Ecological and evolutionary significance of phoresy in the Astigmata.

Hypopi of Hypodectes propus (Acari: Hypoderatidae) in two southern crowned pigeons (Goura scheepmakeri)

Phoresy is a term generally used to describe the attachment of a nonparasitic animal to another animal (Svensson, 1979; Prat et al., 2004).