Thomisids are among the favourite prey of insectivorous birds and other invertebrates. |
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The new find is thought to belong to a group of small, mainly insectivorous birds called white eyes, which are related to warblers. |
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Many kingfishers are unspecialized carnivores that are often largely insectivorous, and may take prey from the ground, the air, water or foliage. |
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The gray slender mouse opossum appears highly insectivorous, feeding mostly on insects belonging to the orders Coleoptera and Orthoptera. |
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Food availability dictates the timing of parturition in insectivorous mouse-eared bats. |
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These bats are strictly insectivorous and may be further limited in diet to moths and butterflies. |
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Vireos are small, primarily insectivorous passerines that live in forested or scrub habitats. |
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A feeding experiment was established to elucidate the extent of granivory and phytophagy among 24 species of insectivorous carabid beetles. |
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Plants such as birds-eye primrose, wild thyme, bilberry and the insectivorous butterwort will expand, creating spectacular landscapes. |
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Like wrens, these birds are insectivorous soft bills, and seeds can seriously damage their beaks and digestive systems. |
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Herbivorous, granivorous and insectivorous birds have a highly specialized, muscular gizzard with an inner lining of hard cuticle. |
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The ancestral amniotes were small animals, superficially resembling primitive, insectivorous lizards. |
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This suggests that dibblers are essentially insectivorous dietary generalists and opportunists. |
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There, while hunting for the rare bog orchid, he stumbled on the minuscule, insectivorous sundew plant, Drosera rotundifolia. |
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It's as if memory functions like some swift and rapacious insectivorous plant. |
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Like most insectivorous bats, the New Zealand short-tailed bat hunts insects in the air by using echolocation. |
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These bats are primarily insectivorous, and most hawk insects in flight, often using their wings like tennis rackets and swatting the insects into the tail membrane. |
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The means of intraspecific communication in the insectivorous fossorial mammals clearly needs to be examined in more detail and is not addressed further here. |
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While the fossorial rodents are herbivores, typically feeding on roots and tubers, the talpid moles, golden moles and marsupial mole are largely insectivorous. |
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Arthropods smaller than 1 mm, ants, isopods, and arthropods with aposematic colorations were excluded from the counts because these are rarely consumed by insectivorous birds. |
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An impoverishment of the benthic community was also noted, along with a decrease in the density of insectivorous cyprinids. |
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The close season on migratory insectivorous birds shall continue throughout the year. |
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On breeding grounds almost entirely insectivorous, mainly beetles and their larvae, grasshoppers, and moth larvae. |
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Most migrating birds are insectivorous and use tree plantings for cover, nesting and feeding areas. |
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About the size of a squirrel, they were insectivorous and possibly nocturnal. |
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Both species exhibit low proportions of polyunsaturated fatty acids and high proportions of oleic and stearic acids characteristic of carnivorous and insectivorous species. |
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The barn swallow is a semicolonial, aerially insectivorous passerine. |
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Barn swallows are small insectivorous passerines that feed on the wing. |
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These bats are primarily insectivorous and hawk insects in flight. |
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No man's hand was turned against it and it cannot be said that its food supplies have vanished, since most other similarly insectivorous birds remain common. |
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Like motmots and todies, kingfishers often have brilliant plumage, are largely insectivorous, and nest in cavities that are often excavated in earthen banks. |
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The sicklebills are predominantly insectivorous and possess long down-curved bills which they use for digging insects out of rotten wood, or from behind bark. |
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Tooth shape ranges from widely spaced and pointy unicuspids in zooplanktivorous and insectivorous species to closely packed and flexible tricuspids in algal scrapers. |
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No, migratory insectivorous birds such as the American Robin are protected in Canada under the M. B. C. A. You are not allowed to possess the bird unless so authorized by a permit issued by the Canadian Wildlife Service. |
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There is also a high long-term risk for insectivorous birds and a high acute risk to herbivorous mammals, a high acute and long-term risk to aquatic organisms and a high risk for beneficial arthropods. |
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The insectivorous South Georgia pipit is endemic to South Georgia and some smaller surrounding islands. |
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The openings to the cylinders have inward-pointing hairs, making it easy to enter them, but difficult to leave a common feature of traps in insectivorous plants. |
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But one group has puzzled botanists for over a hundred years, ever since Charles Darwin described it in 1875, in his treatise on insectivorous plants. |
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Many of the smaller insectivorous birds including the warblers, hummingbirds and flycatchers migrate large distances, usually at night. |
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The common shrew's carnivorous and insectivorous diet consists of insects, slugs, spiders, worms, amphibians and small rodents. |
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Tree shrews have been classified as prosimian or insectivorous on the basis of their similarity or dissimilarity to primates. |
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Neotropical singing mice are diurnal, insectivorous rodents distributed throughout the highlands of Central America. |
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This seasonal vegetation is formed mainly by pipeworts and insectivorous plants, such as bladderworts or sundews. |
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Meadowlarks are primarily insectivorous during the breeding season, and Orthopterans represent a primary source of prey. |
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Thickheads are insectivorous inhabitants of mangrove swamps, scrublands, and open forests from southern Asia to southwestern Pacific islands and Australia. |
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Based on the refined assessment, the level of concern was not exceeded for ground applications but was exceeded in some cases of airblast application for small and medium insectivorous birds and for large herbivorous birds. |
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The virus was then typed at the Institute Pasteur of Buenos Aires using monoclonal antibodies, where it was found to be antigenic variant 4 of serotype 1, i.e., the type of virus usually found in insectivorous bats. |
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Finally, it is appropriate as regards tebufenpyrad, to require the notifier to submit information confirming that no relevant impurities are present and addressing further the risk to insectivorous birds. |
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A small family of drab, unobtrusive, insectivorous birds with thin, pointed bills. |
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Furthermore, for sulcotrione it is appropriate to require the notifier to submit further information as regards the degradation in soil and water of the cyclohexadione moiety and the long term risk to insectivorous birds. |
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The common butterwort, Pinguicula vulgaris, a British native, is also an insectivorous plant. |
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The diet of an insectivorous bat may span a wide range of species, including flies, beetles, moths, grasshoppers, crickets, termites, bees, wasps, mayflies and caddisflies. |
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Small insectivorous mammals eat prodigious amounts for their size. |
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The dentitions of lizards reflect their wide range of diets, including carnivorous, insectivorous, omnivorous, herbivorous, nectivorous, and molluscivorous. |
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Many insectivorous birds are also noted as beneficial in agriculture. |
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In a letter to Asa Gray dated June 3, 1874, Charles Darwin mentioned his early observations of the butterwort's digestive process and insectivorous nature. |
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Large herbivorous animals such as the hippopotamus have populations of insectivorous birds that feed off the many parasitic insects that grow on the hippo. |
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The case is much the same with other species of insectivorous plants, including the Venus' fly-trap, butterworts, and bladderworts, which Darwin discussed far more briefly. |
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The flycatchers and chats are small, mainly insectivorous birds. |
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