Sentences with phrase «feed on insects»

Moles feed on insects, like grubs and earthworms, so you may be tempted to control them by getting rid of their main food source.

Raccoon Dogs feed on insects, rodents, amphibians, birds, fish, reptiles, mollusks and carrion.

As omnivores, they feed on insects, birds, fish, rodents, reptiles, insectivores and even amphibians.

For example, organic eggs from hens allowed to feed on insects and green plants can contain omega - 6 and omega - 3 fatty acids in the beneficial ratio of approximately one - to - one; but commercial supermarket eggs can contain as much as nineteen times more omega - 6 than omega - 3!

That is to say that poultry should have access to greens as well as be allowed to feed on insects and other natural sources rather than be fed on an artificial or synthetic diet.

Toxic to birds, the voracious toads feed on insects and crowd out native species.

Adult perch can grow to weigh more than 440 pounds, and are fierce predators that feed on insects, crustaceans, and other fish — even those of its own species.

The scientists analyzed 15 predatory bird species living within the geographic ranges of periodical cicadas that could potentially feed on the insects, including red headed woodpeckers, blue jays and gray catbirds.

Many bird species feed on insects, and an abundant presence may thus also contribute to a better natural pest control.

Following the asteroid hit, most of the plants and animals would have died, so the survivors probably fed on insects eating dead plants and animals.

There are two types of parasitoids: ectoparasitoids, which lay their eggs on or near the host, so that the hatchling larvae can attach to and feed on the insect from the outside; and endoparasitoids, which lay their eggs directly inside the host, so that the larvae can eat them from the inside out.

It uses its bill to forage on the forest floor, flipping leaves over and feeding on the insects living beneath them.

Belonging to the largest group of bats, known to be feeding on insects exclusively, the widely common Black mouse - eared bat (Myotis nigricans) is found to also seek fruits.

The medium - sized bird, found in lowland forests in the Amazon basin in South America, has one brood per year and mainly feeds on insects.

The researchers also recorded eight other species of carrion - eating birds, two mammals, and even a lizard taking advantage of the remains — although the tiny reptile was probably feeding on insects attracted to the carcass, says Elbroch.

In 15 years he has led 170 expeditions and documented more than 500 previously unknown species of creatures, including Microgale nasoloi, a tiny hedgehog - like tenrec that feeds on insects and scurries about the forest floor; Heteroscorpion magnus, a giant scorpion that hides in rock crevices in the northeastern part of the island; and Cryptosylvicola randrianasoloi, a tiny, sparrowlike warbler that lives high in the forest canopy.

Like 65 % of her species, she is insectivorous - feeding on insects.

Not exact matches

Some blood - feeding insects, like lice and fleas, live on or near their hosts.

Atheists: I know many there are many people that practice religion just by fanaticism, I've seen many people in my opinion stupid (excuse the word) praying to saints hopping to solve their problems by repeating pre-made sentences over and over, but there are others different, I don't think Religion and Science need to be opposites, I believe in God, I'm Catholic and I have many reasons to believe in him, I don't think however that we should pray instead of looking for the cause and applying a solution, Atheists think they are smart because they focus on Science and technology instead of putting their faith in a God, I don't think God will solve our problems, i think he gave us the means to solve them by ourselves that's were God is, also I think that God created everything but not as a Magical thing but stablishing certain rules like Physics and Quimics etc. he's not an idiot and he knew how to make it so everything was on balance, he's the Scientist of Scientist the Mathematic of Mathematics, the Physician of Physicians, from the tiny little fact that a mosquito, an insect species needs to feed from blood from a completely different species, who created the mosquitos that way?

These agriculturalists of the insect world feed exclusively on certain kinds of fungi which they cultivate in subterranean «gardens» on especially collected pieces of leaves and other plant parts.

Webs would indicate spiders, which don't feed on chiles but rather the insects infesting them.

Insect - based ingredients (e.g. flours), snacks and animal feeds that draw on crickets, meal worms, locusts and ants.

This mostly relies on pollen becoming stuck to the bodies of bees and other insects when they feed on flowers, and then being deposited on the next plant they visit.

«And certainly, implications for ecosystem for ecosystem function, particularly for forest health, since these bats feed primarily on insects, and the insects are a major part of these forests.

The Latin American insects are named after their habit of night time feeding on the face of the victim, often spreading the deadly Chagas disease.

For over a hundred years, the scientific literature has accepted that these insects feed exclusively on blood.

Both birds nest on cliffs and feed on grazed land, but the choughs eat insects while the ravens feed on carrion.

They found that five of the insects contained human DNA, indicating they had bitten a person, and two of those insects had fed on two different people.

Meanwhile, insects in the soils fed on the bones, leaving behind tell - tale burrow marks.

The vision of the hawkmoth Manduca sexta — an agile insect flyer that feeds on nectar — is finely tuned to the swaying of flowers in the breeze, a new study shows.

As their name suggests, dung beetles are insects that feed mainly on mammal faeces.

Citizen scientists will be enlisted to collect data on birds and aquatic insects for Jackson's project, which seeks to quantify how contaminants such as mercury move through the food chain: from aquatic insects to the riparian birds that feed upon them.

The preliminary analysis has turned up fossilized insect eggs, left by ancient bugs that may have fed on the decomposing corpse.

In 2001, scientists climbing Ball's Pyramid, a treacherous rocky outcrop southeast of Lord Howe Island, discovered three stick insects feeding on a lone bush.

«We learned that the mutualism involves a third player: a species of scale insect that feeds on the tree sap and produces an excrement called honeydew, on which the ants also feed, and makes the ants a stronger mutualist.»

«Our dietary specialization studies show us that a majority of insect herbivores, around the world, pick one plant in their local ecosystem and feed on just that one type of plant, not every plant that's available, as many people assume.»

Nurdin Topham, now head chef at Nur in Hong Kong, was involved in the work, and noticed that the flavour of the insects changed depending on what they had been fed.

Much as migrating birds or spawning insects rely on the timing of spring so that there is enough available food when they arrive in a given region, so, too, the salmon rely on the timing of phytoplankton blooms, followed by the zooplankton bloom that then feeds baby salmon.

Modern insects like the sawfly deposit their eggs inside a plant's leaf or stem so that the larvae will have plant cells to feed on when they hatch.

Sightings of the corn rootworm, a pest that feeds on corn roots, and the Japanese beetle, an insect that can destroy corn tassels, have actually decreased, he added.

Insects such as maggots and mealworms could provide much of the protein animals need at a much lower environmental cost; many insect species can feed on organic waste.

Unlike most insects, the caterpillar Eloria noyesi feeds on the leaves of coca plants.

As bacteria fed on the creatures that rained from above, they produced toxic gases — methane, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen sulfide — that in turn bubbled up to poison the birds and insects flying overhead.

«What's most interesting is that the study has helped further establish that the plant can perceive the feces, and that it is not enough to just consider the effect insects have on plants through feeding.

While some populations migrate up and down the mountain streams, they are strictly aquatic feeding on underwater insects and salmon eggs and fry that can accumulate methylmercury and biomagnify it up the food chain.

The bottom - dwelling bacteria were able to feed on soft guts, muscle, and blood, but they could not easily digest bone, insect.

Pyrethroids are showing up not only in sediments, but also in the currents of California rivers, at levels toxic to insects and aquatic invertebrates that fish and other animals feed on.

But how do you remove them, aside from the usual methods of shooting them or poisoning the insects on which they feed?

Those plants pass on enough energy to sustain a limited number of insects, which in turn supply food for the occasional reptile or bird, all of which ultimately feed the bacteria.

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