xenobiosis

xenobiosis
n. [Gr. xenos, guest; bios, life]
(ARTHROPODA: Insecta)
A form of relation in which one species lives in and among the nests of another species, obtaining food from them by regurgitation or other means, but keeping their own brood separate.

Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. . 2005.

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