antennation
English
Etymology
From antennate + -ion.
Noun
antennation (countable and uncountable, plural antennations)
- (entomology, of an insect) An act of antennating, or touching the antennae to another insect.
- 2015 July 9, “The Pied Piper: A Parasitic Beetle’s Melodies Modulate Ant Behaviours”, in PLOS ONE, DOI::
- Soldiers’ stridulations elicited a smaller amount of antennations, but not statistically different from those elicited by Paussus favieri single pulses or worker stridulations.
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Translations
an act of touching the antennae to another insect
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