Here’s a word to add to your naturalist vocabulary: phoresy. Phoretic associations between organisms involve one party (the symbiont) using a typically larger other party (the phoront), as a means of transportation. In other words, one hitchhikes on the other. You can observe this strategy right in your own backyard. For example, some tiny nectar-eating mites … Continue reading Hitchhiking Pseudoscorpions (Phoresy)