Sentences with phrase «which feed on»

They are tiny brown insects, about the size of a ladybug, which feed on human blood.

«The microbial fuel cells work by employing live microbes which feed on urine (fuel) for their own growth and maintenance.

The property is alive with bluebirds and barnswallows, which feed on bugs.

A distinction is made between phytoplankton, which depend on photosynthesis for their energy supply, and zooplankton, which feed on phytoplankton.

Phytoplankton, which live close enough to the water's surface to perform photosynthesis — critical to maintaining oxygen in Earth's atmosphere — form the base of the marine food web.4 Although phytoplankton are microscopic, they can be seen from satellites when they grow in a concentrated area (bloom) on the ocean's surface.5 Zooplankton, which feed on phytoplankton, and bacterioplankton, which recycle nutrients in the water, make up the next levels of the web.4

That said, I did have a fun time trying to snap photos of the many hummingbirds which feed on the beautiful flowers in the hotel's garden.

Here, the concentration of nutrients and the resultant populations of smaller fish is so great as to sustain shoals of larger fish which feed on them.

Watch for short - eared owls which feed on the petrals that fly about.

Unusual mammals that can be seen include dugongs, which feed on the sea grass beds in the south of the park, and sperm whales, which travel through the area on their way to calve in the Sangihe Archipelago.

Also there is a good chance of meeting big eagle rays, which feed on the micro-organisms that float in the current.

After a few weeks, they hatch and become larvae which feed on almost anything organic.

The eggs fall to the floor and hatch into larvae, which feed on adult flea feces (which is made up of digested blood — GROSS!)

Fleas are tiny, darkish brown, creepy - crawlies which feed on animals by sucking their blood.

Rodent populations should also be controlled since they can lead to an increase in fleas which feed on tapeworm eggs.

The eggs hatch into maggots which feed on the droppings and eventually the rabbit,...

Unlike other ticks, which feed on many different kinds of hosts, the brown dog tick feeds only on dogs and survives mainly in areas where dogs live.

The tick has various life stages, several of which feed on animals.

These microfilariae have the ability to infect mosquitoes which feed on the infected dog.

It is transmitted by mosquitoes — which feed on infected birds or other animals — to horses, humans and other mammals.

During this night, monsters that are called «Voids» appear which feed on the power of existences or EXS for short.

Healthy colons of humans contain some beneficial bacteria which feed on digestive wastes, thereby producing lactic acid.

Eventually, it creates conditions that favor these anaerobic bacteria, which feed on proteins and iron.

Not to be confused with an itchy, stinging rash caused by jellyfish larvae, these sea lice are planktonic marine parasites which feed on many types of fish.

The SIBO diet will take care of every aspect of the fermentable and pro-inflammatory foods which feed on bacteria.

Museum scientists have found that Osedax worms, which feed on the bones of whale carcasses, can live in shallow Mediterranean waters.

Among these soil dwellers are bacteria, fungi, and algae, which feed on plant and animal remains breaking them down into humus, the organic component of soil, in the process.

According to a study published today in Frontiers in Zoology, the shrimpicide happens because the crustaceans — which feed on fish parasites and dead skin cells near coral reefs in the Indo - Pacific region and the Red Sea — grow slowly if there's too many of them in a tank.

In general, bumblebees with longer tongues are considered «specialists» which feed on flowers with deep, long tubes, while short - tongued bumblebees, in contrast, are «generalists» and tend to move pollen from a variety of flowers.

Shielding makes it possible to insulate electrical conductors so they can be handled safely, even if they carry 220 lethal volts, and for the same reason, radios, which feed on electromagnetic radiation, fade in highway tunnels.

«Nematodes use the spit to transform the host cell into a nutrient sink from which they feed on during their entire life cycle.

Bacteria, which feed on methane and other noxious chemicals, provide sustenance for three - foot - long hollow tube worms and tiny clams.

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

The newfound population of snailfish, which feed on tiny shrimp that scavenge detritus on the ocean floor, are believed to be the deepest living fish ever recorded.

The flies deposit on these crickets their larvae, which feed on the cricket tissue as they mature.

Further sleuthing revealed Pseudo-nitzschia australis remains and domoic acid in the bay's anchovies, which feed on algae by filtering water through their gills.

Both are greyer than the north - east Pacific transient killer whales living off Alaska, which feed on marine mammals, including dolphins.

According to MycoTechnology, the focuses on making better tasting foods using a proprietary all - natural, non-GMO, non-chemical process by adding their MycoSmoothTM process utilizes gourmet mushrooms such as reishi and cordyceps, which feed on bitter components of targeted foods.

In the case of microbes which feed on humans, a society with limited potential for intensity of experience may achieve a measure of endurance by destroying societies of occasions which form the necessary environment for dominant human occasions of greater potential intensity of experience.

Present - day society is locked into four positive feedback loops which need to be broken: economic growth which feeds on itself, population growth which feeds on itself, technological change which feeds on itself, and a pattern of income inequality which seems to be self - sustaining and which tends to spur growth in the other three areas.

Christians participate in a community of believers, the Church, which feeds on the biblical narrative (s) and especially the story of Jesus the Christ.

Clears up Candida: Candida is an opportunistic fungus which feeds on sugars and other yeast - containing foods (foods that are aged, pickled, dried, fermented or cured).

Near the top of that list is the New Zealand flatworm, a relative newcomer to Ireland's shores, which feeds on native earthworms that provide important ecosystem services as well as currying favor with farmers for enhancing the fertility and drainage of agricultural soils.

Unfortunately, that may be the future of the island unless scientists find some way to stop the destructive Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle which feeds on the coconut palms, stripping them of their leaves and decimating the vegetation.

Coyotes are overtaking the red fox, which feeds on small mammals such as mice, shrews and chipmunks, animals that, like deer, can play host to the Lyme - disease - carrying ticks

In the 1980s this species, which feeds on molluscs, was used to control snails that host parasites in catfish ponds, and though it too escaped to rivers, it is generally confined to the deep South.

The cocoon between its legs holds a parasitoid wasp larva, which fed on the beetle's insides before bursting from its belly.

The name comes from the bacteria that helps creates the final product, Xanthomonas campestris, which feeds on a sugar, then ferments.

For money, he picks up one shift a week at a local Tex - Mex restaurant, which feeds him on that day.

Their leader, the evil sorcerer Gul» dan (Daniel Wu), uses a dangerous magic called the Fel — which feeds on the energy of life — to send a small war party of orcs through a portal to the peaceful realm of Azeroth in the hopes of conquering the land and using its inhabitants as fuel to transport the rest of the fleeing Horde.

Flea eggs hatch into a larval stage which feeds on debris and organic matter and lives freely in the environment outdoors or in your home.