various insect species. The term phragmosis has since been further extended beyond just insects. Examples of phragmosis are found in the order Anura (frogs...

clog the entrance of their burrows when threatened, a phenomenon called phragmosis. The disks have strong spines around the edge, and they each have four...

E.; Tambourgi, D. V.; Rodrigues, M. T. (2005). "Head co-ossification, phragmosis and defence in the casque-headed tree frog Corythomantis greeningi". Journal...

to its burrow with it, and using it as a shield, a phenomenon called phragmosis. According to the Director and Senior Biological Engineer of the Insect...

This allows a major worker or queen to plug an entrance using her head (phragmosis). To allow nestmates to pass, the soldier/queen moves back into the nest...

protected by the shield. This form of morphological adaptation is called phragmosis. Latreille, P.A. (1802). Histoire naturelle, generale et particuliere...

entrances of their tunnels and plug them using their sclerotised abdomens (phragmosis). Laboratory tests have confirmed that P. mimulus create their own tunnels...

N. L.; Silvestre, R. (September 2001). "The first case of intranidal phragmosis in ants. The ergatoid queen of Blepharidatta conops (Formicidae, Myrmicinae)...

Albuquerque, N. L.; Silvestre, R. (2001). "The first case of intranidal phragmosis in ants. The ergatoid queen of Blepharidatta conops (Formicidae, Myrmicinae)...

chemical defenses. Termites take advantage of their modified mandibles in phragmosis, which is the blocking of the nest with any part of the body; in this...