Sentences with phrase «feasting on insects»

By feasting on insects, the bats help keep pest populations under control in the rain forest.

Like cordyceps tremella is a parasite, but instead of feasting on insects, this parasitic mushroom uses other fungi as its host.

Bugs are as nutritious as steak, according to one 2016 study, but if you bugged out when you heard healthy foodies were feasting on insects this year, we don't blame you.

He's hopeful that other birds and bats that feast on insects in the air and on the trees near the river will become stronger as well.

The abundance was due not to more plant - specific herbivores but to many types of spiders and other predators coming to feast on the insects.

They feast on insects and enjoy a simple diet of crickets dusted in calcium powder and mealworms.

Not exact matches

Perched in the centre of her vast web, the Darwin's bark spider can feast on huge numbers of insects after they emerge from the water.

As they report in a paper published July 16 in Current Biology, the minute insects employ a razor - sharp sense of smell to tip them off that a warm - blooded meal is nearby, and then use vision and other senses to home in on the feast.

He noted grisly evidence of calamity at a few sites in the Western Settlement: bones of pet dogs with cut marks on them, suggesting hunger; and the remains of insects that feast on corpses, suggesting too few survivors to bury their loved ones.

Much like humans, grizzlies are clever scavengers, feasting on rodents, trout, roots, nuts, berries, insects, and dead animals.

They include kelp flies, which feast on decaying algae, and other insects which feed on washed - up carcasses of fish, marine mammals and seabirds.

They are now confident that a visiting insect which feasts on the nectar and the gland which produces it, and makes merry, is playing into the hands of the flower and ensuring it survives and thrives.

The insects consume billions of aphids that otherwise would have feasted on agricultural crops.

Hanging out by bird feeders around the world, the insects have been observed feasting on a variety of small birds, in particular, hummingbirds.

Whatever the case, the result is spectacular: Amid the moon's cool glow, thousands upon thousands of silvery droplets coalesce on Ephedra's cones to reflect the moonlight into the compound eyes of passing insects, signaling the start of a weeklong feast for the arthropods and another mating season for E. foeminea.

Solanine, and other harmful constituents found within the plants of this family, function as a natural insecticide to ward off insects which feast on the fruits of tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, eggplant and other nightshades.

Not only do we have the gigantic lizard to contend with, but the screenwriters of this epic have been thoughtful enough to provide him with live food to snack on — two huge, leathery insect - like creatures that feast upon radioactive matter in all its forms.

In the wild, sulphur - crested cockatoos feast on seeds, grain, and insects that they harvest from trees.

Best time to visit is during dusk, when the hordes of nectar bats swarm the skies over the temple as they feast on airborne insects.