The phrase "attach to a host" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to biology, technology, or networking, where something is connecting or adhering to a host entity.
Example: "The virus can attach to a host cell, allowing it to replicate and spread."
Alternatives: "bind to a host" or "connect to a host".
It must attach to a host before it can grow and mature.
The odour of butyric acid, emanated by all mammals, stimulates the larvae to drop onto and attach to a host.
A few species with stubby bodies filter feed and have suckers at the front and back ends, with which they attach to a host.
One of them even contains a probable developing larva, which held a cluster of fiberlike objects that may have been the beginnings of hooklets used to attach to a host's intestines as adults.
Lice disperse as free-swimming nauplii and molt to infective copepodids which attach to a host, develop through later stages and feed on skin and mucus [ 3].
Most Cuscuta species are annuals and must be prolific producers of highly energetic seeds to ensure at least some offspring will be able to germinate and survive long enough to search out and attach to a host.
These range from glorified distance learning (simply teaching over the internet from Britain), to franchising courses to foreign partners, and sending dons to teach abroad, either while attached to a host university, or ultimately in a separate entity.
Piezoelectric patches shunted with passive electrical networks can be attached to a host structure for reduction of structural vibrations.
It consists of a motherboard and a selectable RF daughter boards along with a gigabit ethernet port that can be attached to a host computer for further processing.
This paper describes new methods for measuring the modal equivalent stiffness ratios and modal electromechanical coupling coefficients of piezoelectric elements attached to a host structure such as a beam.
The beginning of that time window is set by how long a tick takes to molt and become ready to attach to a new host and the end by how long it can survive while waiting for a host.
