Rays and skates primarily feed on molluscs, crustaceans, worms and occasionally smaller fishes. |
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The gypsy moth has a very broad host range but prefers to feed on oak species. |
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Greenbugs feed on a variety of grass crops, including wheat, oats, barley, rye and sorghum. |
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They feed on microscopic blue green algae plants that only thrive in saline waters. |
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Copepods feed on microscopic algae and in turn serve as food for millions of other invertebrates and fish. |
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They feed on many types microscopic algae that grow on calcareous material, such as coral skeletons. |
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They feed on more than 100 species of plants, including grass, leaves, twigs and bark. |
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They feed on honeydew excreted by other insects and then lay eggs just beneath the apples' skins. |
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Eleven species of bichirs inhabit shallow floodwater areas in tropical Africa rivers, where they feed on worms, insect larvae, and small insects. |
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Their tricuspid teeth are especially adapted to feed on organisms with hard shells such as clams, snails, crabs and shrimp. |
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Koalas inhabit eucalyptus woodlands where they feed on eucalyptus leaves, stems, flowers, and bark. |
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The white clover takes nitrogen from the air and puts it into the soil for the grass to feed on. |
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In winter when food is scarce, keas have been known to feed on the fatty internal organs of dead and live sheep in the high country. |
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Dermatophytes are fungi that can cause infections of the skin, hair and nails because of their ability to feed on keratin. |
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The most common is activated sludge, a process in which microbes, also known as biomass, are allowed to feed on organic matter in the wastewater. |
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They also feed on sap from sapsucker holes, berries, nuts, seeds, and suet. |
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They also eat other insects and some fruit, and they visit sapsucker wells to feed on the sap. |
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They also visit sapsucker holes and feed on sap and insects attracted to the holes. |
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When nectar resources are scarce, hummingbirds will also feed on sap from holes in trees made by sapsuckers. |
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In addition to fish, Pterois volitans feed on invertebrates such as amphipods, isopods, and other crustaceans. |
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The caterpillars, which mimic the larva of M. sabuleti, are carried into the nest by the workers, where they then feed on the ant larvae. |
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They feed on smaller birds and rodents but have been known to go for cats and small dogs as well. |
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In the case of meat, the animals must not be given medicine such as antibiotics or wormers, and they must feed on pesticide-free food. |
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Dust mites are about 0.3 mm long, feed on human skin scales, and are found in places with dust and high levels of humidity. |
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These two feed on each other, the recollections of what is lost and the alienation from what is found. |
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This unprecedented nesting failure is caused by starvation from the overnight disappearance of the small silvery sand eels the birds feed on. |
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Goldfinches also feed on the seed of goldenrod, coreopsis, cosmos, zinnias, dandelions and other weedy plants. |
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The larvae feed on mints, including spearmint and Apple mint, marjoram, Meadow-clary, Lemon balm, catmint and calamints. |
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Many parrotfishes feed on calcareous algae growing on dead, exposed coral by biting off chunks and turning them into a fine paste. |
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The freshwater golden shiner was expected to have a high tracer enrichment, because it is reported to feed on zooplankton. |
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Unlike mammals, chicks do not feed on milk formula as their stomachs cannot digest it. |
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We don't feed on the younger or the stronger so that they may grow and prosper. |
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In ancient times this was done by carrying the body to a high hilltop, leaving it bare for nature's scavengers to feed on. |
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She was about to begin to feed on the owls kill when she scented the smell of a felida, finally noticing a shadowed form at the back of the cave. |
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All the same we took about thirty fish from the shoal before they became too cross with us to feed on. |
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Here tens of thousands of semi-palmated sandpipers and other shorebirds feed on the rich salt marshes that dominate the landscape. |
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Otters mostly feed on invertebrates such as urchins, squid, octopus, crabs, abalone and other mollusks. |
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They feed on small bony fishes, snails, worms, shrimps, clams, abalone, and crabs. |
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Purple Finches flock to the wahoo elm trees to feed on the buds, and Crossbills attack the pine cones. |
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Dwarf mongooses mainly feed on insects like termites, locusts, beetles, grubs, larvae and spiders. |
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Some termites feed on the wood timber of houses, posing a danger as a roof or ceiling can collapse from the impact of their feeding. |
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Free-range chickens, turkeys and guineas will feed on ticks and other pests, such as grasshoppers, Japanese beetles and mosquitoes. |
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In addition to grain, queleas also feed on insects and, in the dry season, strip the leaves from trees. |
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In the wild the long white caterpillars are often considered pests by beekeepers, because they feed on the hives' wax and honey. |
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The adults of most species feed on nectar and honeydew produced by aphids and other sucking insects like leafhoppers, whiteflies and mealybugs. |
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All artists feed on themselves, and most, are introspective, self-doubting and reflective. |
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Tropical fish haunt its few coral reefs, and whale sharks and giant Pacific manta rays feed on its plankton. |
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Later in the season, wireworms will feed on plant roots and may damage developing potato tubers. |
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When trees die, the Crouches leave them standing so that birds such as flickers and chickadees can feed on the insects that invade the dead wood. |
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On their breeding grounds, they nest close to penguin colonies where they feed on the eggs and the young. |
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Little is known about predation on modern Nautilus beyond the fact that turtles and sea perch will feed on them. |
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What allows the eel catfish to flourish there is its elongated body and ability to feed on both land and water. |
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Gardener snakes, grass snakes, ground beetles, box turtles, salamanders, ducks, and larvae of lightning bugs all feed on snails. |
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Their Aberdeen Angus feed on rich grass and organic hay, and the meat is hung for a minimum of 14 days to ensure optimum taste. |
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The insects will feed on the seeds, and many commercial mesquite bean growers are dismayed at their presence. |
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Farmed salmon currently feed on a diet of pellets made from processed fish caught in large-scale industrial fisheries. |
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As the rays hover over the seamounts, the diminutive angelfish come up and feed on the parasites that attach to the rays' skin. |
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Juvenile Nile perch feed on invertebrates when small then switch to fishes with growth. |
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In the wild legless lizards feed on a variety of small mammals, bird eggs and invertebrates such as insects and earthworms. |
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A shower of seeds inevitably falls from the canopy, but biological control agents will feed on and suppress any new seedlings. |
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The smaller waders will feed on the bivalve molluscs and the little worms and that that are actually in the mud and sand. |
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He said the Spanish mackerel, baby bonito and hardtails like to feed on the minnows. |
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The smell is made by the bacteria that feed on this sweat, which comes from the apocrine glands in the armpits and groin area. |
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We live in nature and we feed on environment, thus, invulnerably our activities have great effects on the surroundings. |
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The larvae feed on root hairs, restricting nutrient and moisture uptake by the plant. |
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The small, pigeon-like birds that feed on the ground are called mourning doves because of the sad sound of their coos. |
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Using round-nose pliers, unbend the wire handle ends inside the box and feed on large beads with large holes. |
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Dipterans typically have sucking mouthparts, and may feed on plant juices or on decaying organic matter. |
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The golden plover breeds in short vegetation on upland heaths and peat bogs and adults also travel each day to feed on nearby pastures. |
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Fire ants feed on almost any plant or animal material, including vulnerable reptile and ground-bird hatchlings. |
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Sloth bears are omnivorous and feed on a variety of foods depending on what is available. |
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Sea turtles are omnivorous and feed on a variety of sponges, cnidarians, mollusks, crustaceans, algae, plants, and fish. |
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Hundreds of macaws and parrots gather at the exposed riverbanks to feed on clay, which helps the birds digest their diet of nutritious seeds. |
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Of all salmonids, namely the salmon and trout, S. confluentus is more inclined to feed on fish. |
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Later, become predators and feed on insects, invertebrates, and other small fish. |
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It catches insects in flight and uses sapsucker holes to feed on sap and insects attracted to the sap. |
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Because blister beetle larvae feed on grasshopper eggs, there is often an increase in areas of high grasshopper populations. |
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Bags have to be put on early in the season as bract damage can occur at bud stage, as well as when birds feed on the open flowers. |
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While these mouthparts are not primarily designed to pierce skin some mallophagans do feed on blood. |
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The young, which are about a centimetre in length, feed on their reserves for the first few days of life. |
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The brown trout, which feed on a rich diet of crustaceans in the brackish water, are plump and pink-fleshed. |
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These bacteria feed on undigested food particles and release gases during a process called fermentation. |
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But in Antarctic waters, E supurba so abounds that the baleen whales feed on it almost exclusively. |
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In addition to whitefish, bull trout will feed on sculpins, darters or other trout and where applicable, salmon fry. |
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These all feed on pteropods, or sea butterflies, one of the species most threatened by rising acidity. |
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They feed on mysids, small shrimp-like crustaceans, and other small crustaceans, plankton, and larval fish. |
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Declines in seabird populations have also been blamed on depletion of the fish stocks that they feed on. |
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Some graze, some browse, some feed on plankton, some are scavengers or detritivores, some are active carnivores. |
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Still other chelicerates are tiny organisms which feed on detritus, the bits of decaying matter that accumulate on and below the ground. |
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That forced orcas, or killer whales, which normally feed on seals and sea lions, to approach the coast and eat the sea otters. |
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This common, damaging pest likes to feed on the roots of Hawaii's colorful and exotic tropical orchids. |
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Fieldfare and redwings feed on the mounds of apples, Blackbirds and thrushes turn over the compost heap. |
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Rooks caw in the trees, jackdaws nest in their new chimney, sparrows feed on neighbours' tables. |
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The larvae of root weevils feed on strawberry roots and crowns, which can weaken, stunt, or kill plants. |
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They feed on the roots of a wide variety of plants including cool season grasses, weeds, woody ornamentals and other ornamental plants. |
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The geese pull plants up by the roots to feed on them, stripping the ground bare. |
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Moose break off branches of poplar saplings and of red and striped maples to feed on the terminal buds and twigs. |
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Likewise, gypsy moths preferentially feed on oak foliage compared to foliage of red or striped maples. |
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Many species feed on elongated fish, such as eels, which they paralyze with their venom. |
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Bottlenose dolphins feed on squid, shrimp, eels and a wide variety of fish. |
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Snakes are common nest predators and falcons and other birds of prey feed on adults. |
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Protea itch mites are known to hitch rides on sugarbirds and sunbirds in order to feed on flowerheads of sugarbushes. |
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Such declines are consistent with those observed in other ducks when they feed on highly digestible foods. |
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Our two major species overwinter as eggs in the soil, hatching in early June to feed on corn roots. |
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The cactus, or more precisely, the cochineal insects that feed on it yield a red-purple stain when crushed. |
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The light-pink worm, or larva, of the codling moth and the white worm of the oriental fruit moth hungrily feed on fruit. |
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Other parasites will feed on any host available and are called facultative parasites. |
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Although moles feed on beneficial invertebrates as well as lawn pests, they rarely affect the populations of either. |
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Wide-ranging and solitary, Siberian tigers rule a domain inhabited by wild boar and elk, which feed on the Korean pine's meaty nuts. |
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Large channel siluroids that feed on the characins are the second group of prized fish. |
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The birds will swoop in front of cars to feed on the insects attracted by the headlights. |
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The red uakari inhabits the rainforest canopy where they feed on leaves, fruit and insects. |
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A bear may hunt and kill an animal at any time but will feed on vegetation when no animals are available. |
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As they continue on the road, the sky is filled with carrion birds and wolves feed on the bodies of unburied orcs. |
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The larvae of these species attract the hyperparasitic wasp Eurytoma lutea, whose larvae feed on these gall-formers. |
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A few species that use their pedicellariae to capture prey may even feed on fish. |
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Most species of coarse fish can feed on a whole variety of different kinds of food. |
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Unlike other whitefishes, which feed on plankton and benthic invertebrates, inconnu are mainly piscivorous. |
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The minuscule zooplankton feed on ocean algae which, like all plants, use carbon dioxide to photosynthesise. |
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As black-headed and common gulls tend to feed on farmland, it seems likely that farmland is the origin of the outbreak. |
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Alien plants often don't attract insects, which means there is nothing for birds to feed on. |
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These may feed on different substances and so be able to coexist, or they may compete for the same substance. |
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Little owls tend to feed on insects although they will take small birds and mammals when they are hungry. |
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Birds should also be encouraged to feed on caterpillars, slugs and other pests. |
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While in freshwater, Chinook Salmon fry and smolts feed on plankton and then terrestrial and aquatic insects, amphipods and crustaceans. |
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The eggs hatch and the young braconids feed on the viscera of the hornworm until they pupate as shown in the photo. |
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Aphids continue to feed on plants tissues until the Braconid larvae inside their bodies completely consume them. |
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Some dipluran species are herbivorous and feed on plants and plant material. |
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As adults, some soldier beetle species feed on nectar and pollen, while others are predators that hunt for aphids and other soft-bodied insects. |
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Flea beetles also feed on many nongarden plants, including Virginia creeper, pokeweed, horse nettle, pigweed and wild mustard family plants. |
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They feed on it because they would love to divide it and there are people like that I've always called the dividers. |
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So maybe you feed on punk-rockin surf vids and only venture to the movies to see monster action films? |
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Oyster drills feed on oysters by drilling a hole directly through the oyster's shell. |
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The snails like to feed on mushrooms, and only a single centiliter of mucus is extracted at a time. |
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The eggs hatch after about two weeks, and the young larvae begin to feed on the walls of the gall. |
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Many parasitic insects lay their eggs in fertilized ovules so that their young can feed on the starches, fats, and proteins within. |
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Hatchlings will feed on macroplankton, small snails, crustaceans and other invertebrates such as hydrozoans and jellies. |
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At the time of laying, Ural Owls mainly feed on field voles and bank voles. |
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The whole idea behind fly fishing is to mimic the different insects and aquatic animals fish feed on. |
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Today caterpillars and weevils feed on roots, stems, leaves, reproductive cones, and seeds of cycads. |
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Living horseshoe crabs feed on molluscs, worms, and other tasty and nutritious marine invertebrates. |
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Bowhead whales feed on crustacean zooplankton, primarily large copepods of the genus Calanus and euphausiids. |
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On the other hand, there is a rich community of specialist and generalist predators, all of which feed on lemmings. |
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Agriculture professionals applaud the bats, which feed on migratory corn earworm moths, America's number-one agricultural pest. |
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Although it is well known that many small animals can feed on large ones, such predator-prey interaction is rare. |
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Generally, more hypsodont animals tend to feed on grasses and live in open habitats. |
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Farmers have traditionally used sugary solutions to attract red ants to feed on insect larvae. |
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In South America, anteaters evolved long sticky tongues that enable them to feed on ants and termites. |
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Adults of some Dolichopodinae have elongate mouthparts and are known to be anthophilous and feed on nectar. |
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It is a great place for little trout as they dart about in the crystal water and feed on the fat flies that unwittingly drop from the branches. |
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Scientists are investigating how long geese may be exposed to pesticides as they move about and feed on arable crops in North Yorkshire. |
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One well-known example involves animals that feed on floral nectar but do not transfer pollen between flowers. |
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Lynx feed on squirrels, birds and other small prey, but snowshoe hares are the mainstays of their diet. |
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Many ortheziids, as they are known, live in soil or leaf litter and feed on fungi, lichens, mosses, and plant roots. |
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Second generation borers initially feed on leaf collars and sheaths, cutting off the flow of nutrients to the developing ear. |
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The adults and young feed on saltcedar leaves, repeatedly defoliating the tree and depriving it of nutrients. |
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The larva of the soldier beetle will feed on small insects before burrowing in for the winter. |
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Manta rays live in tropical waters and feed on plankton, using their frontal flaps. |
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Every March and April, whale sharks come to Ningaloo Reef on Australia's outback coast to feed on plankton. |
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In tropical vegetated seabird colonies such as Aride, predatory ants may feed on tick eggs and larvae thereby reducing tick levels. |
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They feed on other insects and spiders, so they are not really that bad to have around. |
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The blaze did nothing but feed on the building, hissing and spitting on wood and brick. |
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Larvae burrow into the ground to feed on strawberry roots from late spring to early summer. |
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Vampire bats are found across Latin America and feed on the blood of warm-blooded animals such as birds, horses and cattle. |
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The Javan rhinoceros often lies in streams, where small fish and crabs feed on the insects that live on its skin. |
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Harpa species, and probably also Morum species, live in sand and feed on small crabs. |
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In winter, they feed on berries, seeds, and acorns, in trees or shrubs or on the ground. |
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Tawny eagles are abundant in East Africa and they feed on small mammals and gamebirds, such as francolins and guineafowl. |
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Only slightly larger than a sparrow, crossbills live exclusively in conifer forests where they feed on the seeds. |
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Both adults and juveniles feed on benthic algae as well as on benthic and planktonic crustacea. |
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Because frilled sharks live on the ocean floor, they may also feed on carrion floating down from the surface. |
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The Toxo mosquito, when in a larvae state, has the nature to feed on the comparatively smaller sized anopheles and culex larvae. |
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Eggs hatch by full bloom and nymphs feed on developing fruitlets though the petal fall period. |
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Monarchs are members of a butterfly family called the Danaids, so named because they feed on members of the milkweed family of plants. |
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Swifts feed on the wing, and their large gape enables them to catch insects while in flight. |
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They have a large gape which allows them to feed on very large fish by chopping them in half. |
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In addition to whitefish bull trout will feed on sculpins, darters or other trout and where applicable, salmon fry. |
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Indeed, the more private-equity groups crowd around to feed on distressed properties, the more prices go up. |
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The larva of geometer moths, the familiar inchworms, feed on mulberry leaves. |
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Damage occurs when beetles feed on the seed and destroy the germ, resulting in an uneven stand. |
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Finally, decomposers are organisms such as bacteria and fungi that feed on the remains of dead plants and animals. |
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It was not her first time allowing a vampire to feed on her blood. |
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It is believed that the microscopic plankton on which tiny sandeel larvae feed are moving northwards as the sea water warms, leaving the baby fish with nothing to feed on. |
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Then, the ticks feed on mountain hares and become infected with a virus. |
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They showed that she had in fact managed to feed on the hyena. |
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Barn swallows are small insectivorous passerines that feed on the wing. |
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Along the tops of the walls and gullies are many small hydroid clumps which, in turn, attract a range of delicately coloured nudibranchs that feed on them. |
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After migrating to the ocean, the maturing adults feed on large zooplakton, herring, pilchard, sandlance and other fishes, squid, and crustaceans. |
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It is not known in detail to what extent grayling move around in a river system, though some believe that they follow salmon upriver during spawning to feed on their eggs. |
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It is quite common for a vampire bat to fail to feed on a given night. |
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Dead wood attracts wood boring insects, magnificent stag beetles, and birds that feed on insects attracted to rotting wood such as the woodpecker. |
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These are not the carpet moths that feed on the fibers in rugs. |
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In addition to corn it may feed on weeds, including cocklebur. |
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They feed on freshwater fish, insects and the seeds of fringing plants. |
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Various beetles such as firefly larvae and ground beetles feed on slugs. |
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On hatching of eggs, the grubs feed on soft tissues inside the trunk. |
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They feed on vegetation, fruit and seeds, storing any surplus food in their cheek pouches which they empty into their burrow and hoard for future consumption. |
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They frequently feed on Hymenoptera, Diptera, Hemiptera and Coleoptera. |
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During the day, leatherjackets mostly stay underground, but on damp, warm nights they come to the surface to feed on the aboveground parts of many plants. |
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These migratory diving birds winter in the Delta region, where they voraciously feed on channel catfish fingerlings and any other fish they can swallow. |
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Gamekeepers are legally able to kill animals such as foxes that feed on grouse, but they cannot disturb or kill protected species such as goshawks. |
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These adversaries were leeches, cowards who feed on the weak and helpless. |
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In return they feed on a secretion made by the aphid, called honeydew. |
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Like sheep they are destined for the grave, and death will feed on them. |
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Petaurids feed on insects and on the sap and gum of eucalypts and acacias. |
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Birds as a whole feed on a wide range of foods, from fish and flesh to insects to fruits and seeds, and in the case of the New Zealand kea, occasionally sheep's blood. |
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Pembroke river is described as a refuge for wildlife. Thousands of birds feed on the mud flats during the winter and in the summer shell duck nest and rear their young here. |
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They are certainly magnificent birds who live, sleep and feed on the wing. |
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Giant carp control the lake, wallowing, complacent, feed on glutinous rice, silvery ancients reminding how scales and fish-slime outlast dynasties. |
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As young, begin to feed on attached yolk sacs, then plankton. |
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Cedar waxwings, crows, finches, flycatchers, grosbeaks, grouse, jays, mockingbirds, pheasants, thrushes, vireos, and woodpeckers feed on their fruits. |
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Earlier we glimpsed a seal, and we've seen bountiful mussels and clams half-buried in the mud and the sanderlings, avocets, and gulls that feed on them. |
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Mites and ticks which feed on vertebrate hair or blood often carry disease organisms, such as spirochete bacteria, responsible for relapsing fever and Lyme disease. |
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Following their re-emergence in early spring, the mature peacock butterflies feed on flowering sallows, dandelions, wild marjoram, danewort and clover fields. |
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The newly emerged adults feed on young leaves and flower buds. |
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The nomads bring their animals here to the town of InGall in Niger to feed on grass which is rich in salt minerals, believing that the practice fortifies the animals. |
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After watching a tapir feed on the algae covering a lagoon, Paula led us to a giant egret rookery, where the twilight screamed like a million soccer fans. |
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Tiny baitfish feed on these amphipods, and the next point in the cycle provides food for larger fish, which in turn nurture popular gamefish, among others. |
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The exhibit points out, for instance, that immobile plants face over 500,000 types of insects who want to feed on them. |
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Soon the cats began to feed on people's discarded food scraps. |
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While blue whales may occasionally feed on pelagic crabs and small fishes, their diet is almost exclusively euphausiid shrimps commonly called krill. |
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They also feed on small crayfish, minnows, tadpoles, worms, and insects. |
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For larger birds such as blackbirds, starlings and song thrushes that feed on insects, food found easily in the summer can be cut off as frost seals the ground. |
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Thought to be named after the cranes which feed on them, cranberries proliferate in the boggy marshlands of the Canadian and North American seaboard. |
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The scientists discovered that crabs of diverse sizes feed on vast numbers of zooplankton that are killed by toxic sulphurous plumes emitted from underwater vents. |
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Horned larks appear to come into the Hamlet to feed on grit and seeds. |
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Goldfish feed on crustaceans, insect larvae, molluscs and some vegetation. |
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The network of mature hedges, the areas of long grass and the ponds and streams means there are plenty of insects, especially moths, for the bats to feed on. |
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The bacteria feed on mucus secreted by glands on the worms' backs. |
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They settle in the farmland areas to feed on the grass, putting on weight, especially the goslings, in preparation for the flight to Scotland and Ireland. |
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Crabs or fish or even a diamondback terrapin enters a trap to feed on the bait, can't get out, dies and becomes the bait that attracts more victims. |
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They feed on crustaceans, such as the small shrimp-like mysids. |
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In this environment potassium, magnesium, calcium, chloride and bicarbonate are readily available, particularly for insects that feed on detritus or plant material. |
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Eggs hatch into larvae that feed on the bee bread in their cells. |
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Green June beetles also emerge in July and they also feed on ripe fruit. |
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Fruits displayed on the tips of branches are available primarily to small birds-the flowerpeckers, mynas and delicate, hovering sunbirds that can feed on the wing. |
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Larger species, such as monitor lizards, can feed on larger prey including fish, frogs, birds, mammals and other reptiles. |
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Abate will operate by luring anthropophilic insects of disease to feed on livestock treated with the product. |
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A few, such as the killer whale, feed on mammals, such as pinnipeds and other whales. |
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Toothed whales mostly feed on fish and cephalopods, followed by crustaceans and bivalves. |
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When eating, they ingest the whole plant, including the roots, although when this is impossible they feed on just the leaves. |
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It is primarily an algae grazer, but it will feed on small invertebrates such as barnacle larvae. |
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They also feed on zooplankton, tiny animals found in oceanic surface waters, and small fish and fish larvae. |
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There are a range of harmless predators available that will feed on pests such as red spider mites, whiteflies and aphids. |
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An undiscerning predator, hake feed on their prey found near or on the bottom of the sea. |
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Females of most species of the Corethrellidae are haematophagous and feed on anuran blood to obtain protein for egg development. |
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Sea otters, starfish, wolf eels, triggerfish, and other predators hunt and feed on sea urchins. |
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As trees grow, they are set upon by true bugs that feed on sap, such as aphids, among many other herbivorous insects. |
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Pedicellaria are a good means of defense against ectoparasites, but not a panacea as some of them actually feed on it. |
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They primarily feed on small rodents like voles, mice, ground squirrels, hamsters, gerbils, woodchucks, pocket gophers and deer mice. |
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Many marketable species on the Pacific coast, such as salmon, lingcod, Pacific hake, Pacific halibut, and spiny dogfish, feed on them. |
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Carp feed on tubifex, water fleas, mosquito larvae and other natural organisms that are usually present in the ponds. |
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A variety of sharks used to feed on rays, which are a main predator of bay scallops. |
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Juveniles form schools and feed on invertebrates, while adults are less social and prefer to consume other fish. |
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Some dinoflagellates may feed on other organisms as predators or parasites. |
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Biodegradation Microbes in water feed on compounds in oil, breaking it down into water-soluble compounds. |
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Many species of Calliphoridae are saprophages that feed on animal carcasses, whereas others are obligate parasites. |
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Many of the same predators feed on baby turtles as they try to get to the ocean, as well as frigatebirds and varied raptors. |
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While the preferred diet of cuttlefish is crabs and fish, they feed on small shrimp shortly after hatching. |
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Brant feed on sea lettuce and other plants that grow in the tidal mud of the Jersey Shore's bays. |
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They typically only feed on carrion in the late evening hours and at night. |
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In the seagrass beds, the turtles feed on the seagrass by trimming only the top and leaving the roots of the plant. |
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A wolf bounty was introduced in Sweden in 1647, after the extermination of moose and reindeer forced wolves to feed on livestock. |
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They feed on aquatic animals and nest on a floating platform of vegetation. |
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Webworms are caterpillars that feed on a wide variety of woody plants while protected by webs. |
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The caterpillars of a number of moths such as the Dark Arches and Vapourer moths feed on the foliage. |
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Many use vision to predate zooplankton or smaller fish, while others filter feed on plankton. |
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Aquatic invertebrates that feed on toad tadpoles include dragonfly larvae, diving beetles and water boatmen. |
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Blue sharks feed on small pelagic fishes including jack mackerel, northern anchovy, Pacific herring and market squid. |
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They feed both at the ocean's surface and below it, and even feed on each other. |
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Young apple trees are also prone to mammal pests like mice and deer, which feed on the soft bark of the trees, especially in winter. |
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Many species of gull will feed on seabird and sea mammal carrion when the opportunity arises, as will giant petrels. |
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Sei whales appeared off the coast of Norway at the same time as the pollock, both coming to feed on the abundant plankton. |
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Fleas that feed on red foxes include Pulex irritans, Ctenocephalides canis and Paraceras melis. |
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Many birds, such as the common blackbird, and some mammals will feed on the nutritious fruits in autumn. |
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Willow Grouse and Red Grouse feed on the young shoots and seeds of this plant. |
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Scientists say it could lead to the extinction of some birds which feed on cranefly, such as golden plovers, by the end of the century. |
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The larvae of a number of Lepidoptera species also feed on the plant, notably the small emperor moth Saturnia pavonia. |
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The larva feed on the foliage of dill, parsley, fennel, goutweed, angelica, sweet cicely and many other members of the umbels family. |
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Swarms usually remain in deep water during the day, ascending during the night to feed on plankton. |
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Their results indicated that they feed on various planktonic organisms, but especially microscopic jellyfish. |
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They feed on crustaceans, aquatic insects, small insects, and probably any aquatic organisms that they can find and eat. |
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Young Atlantic halibut individuals feed on crustaceans such as crabs and prawns. |
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Epipelagic fish can be broadly divided into small forage fish and larger predator fish which feed on them. |
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These organisms migrate up into shallower water at dusk to feed on plankton. |
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Pilot whales mainly feed on cephalopods, though in certain regions fish may be more prominent in their diet. |
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They follow vertical migrations of the zooplankton they feed on to the bottom during daytime and to the surface at night time. |
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They feed on squid, fish and krill by either scavenging, surface seizing or diving. |
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If the caterpillars hatch in the spring and feed on oak catkins they appear green. |
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Unknown in the UK until 2004, they are not plant pests but they feed on native ladybirds and other good guys like lacewings and hoverfly. |
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New Zealand sea lions feed on pups of some fur seal species, and the South American sea lion may prey on South American fur seals. |
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The larvae feed on mulberry leaves and in Europe, only one generation is normally raised each year as this is a deciduous tree. |
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Tick species that commonly feed on giraffes are those of genera Hyalomma, Amblyomma and Rhipicephalus. |
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They feed on slugs, snails, cutworms, cabbage root maggots and other pests that live in the soil. |
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These gentle mammals feed on the sea grass and closer relatives of certain land mammals than the dolphins and the whales. |
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This has had a negative impact on the crustaceans that rely on the mangrove, and in turn on the species that feed on them. |
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During the spring and summer, they feed on soy, clover and corn poppy as well as grasses and herbs. |
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They were also diving to feed on blue mussels and other underwater food sources like the green sea urchin. |
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However, it is said that animals did not feed on him and his body produced no odor, and that the corpse caused fear and nightmares in the people. |
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