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.

Translations

an act of touching the antennae to another insect

Portuguese: antenação f

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