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Sentence Examples Head lice are small, wingless insects that can get on the hair and scalp of humans. Other bats catch insects in the air, some in open spaces, others in dense vegetation, often using the wing or tail membrane as a scoop. Any general use pesticide will kill insects indiscriminately, pests and beneficials alike. Ironically, when a tree is attacked by insects, it releases certain compounds which some insects actually use to their advantage. Ants and insects including silverfish, woolly bears, earwigs and spiders can be tackled with products from hardware shops. They eat little worms and little insects and things, and they're a neat little animal. The majority of these insects build nests and therefore suitable nest sites must be maintained. Fish will scavenge for insects and plant life in the pond but will also benefit from an occasional feeding of fish food. To introduce green lacewings into a garden start early in the season as soon as pest insects are detected. Before fall migration, swallows gorge themselves on insects and bayberries. This is a very small order of Australian insects commonly known as alderflies and dobsonflies. Pyrazines are extremely volatile compounds and occur alongside warning coloration in insects from widely differing taxonomic groups. The trick is to kill pest insects without killing the taste or texture of the food they infest. Hemideina tree weta are a group of large, flightless, nocturnal insects endemic to New Zealand. Under laboratory conditions, flying insects such as fruit flies and migratory locusts have powered stationary engines with their beating wings. However, some insects selfishly lay their own eggs in empty cells rather than taking care of the queen's eggs. They also eat other insects and some fruit, and they visit sapsucker wells to feed on the sap. The traditional use of rearing lac insects on the stem of the pigeonpea plant also continues. And baculoviruses don't kill pest insects as rapidly as chemical insecticides. The rustling leaves and calls of the night insects soon lulled her to sleep. Show More Sentences Certain lacertilian species such as the lacertid, and insects such as the mantis, possess a third eye, known as the parietal eye. If they do experience some stress, the insects that most often appear will be the leaf miner or scale. Seal and caulk around vents, pipes, and windows where daddy-long-legs and insects can creep inside. He has bred 300,000 of the four legged creatures and is hoping they will eat enough of the wretched insects to mark an improvement. In addition to grain, queleas also feed on insects and, in the dry season, strip the leaves from trees. As soon as her body lay horizontally, spiders and insects and worms came scuttering forward, and began to eat her skin. Helps plants withstand attacks by disease and insects by enhancing naturally occurring microbial agents. There are also informative sections about insects on money, arachnophobia and a gallery of insect-related art. In addition to the pretarsus, tarsus, tibia and femur, insects have two proximal segments not shown in the figure. Fallen drops may recycle sugars to the soil and thence to trees, or the insects may promote extra photosynthesis in host trees. Harmonic radar is one trick entomologists are using to understand the range of large insects such as the Asian longhorn. They eat vegetable matter, dead insects and reportedly even enjoy dining on the odd bird dropping. Just as humans keep cows for their milk, certain ant species rear aphids and other insects in their nests and consume their secretions. It catches insects in flight and uses sapsucker holes to feed on sap and insects attracted to the sap. She discovered, however, that the stored candy attracted the interest of insects and rodents. Colin Marlow, 56, was attacked by the insects after disturbing a nest on his smallholding. In flour mills and food processing plants, insects that survive an insecticide treatment could live on food or crumbs left by poor sanitation. The insects carry the antennae directed forwards, and sometimes use them as tactors. To burn those extra calories, a colony of 150 weavers with no nest would have to catch and eat 4,500 more insects each day. Growing in dense thickets, it becomes vulnerable over time to attacks from insects and disease. Show More Sentences There are 26,000 million insects living in every square mile of habitable land on Earth. Both in the uplands and the lowlands insects continued to represent an astonishing diversity of forms. If a homeowner had his home treated for cockroaches, for example, the insecticide would kill bedbugs and other insects as well. One by one, the insects march up blades of grass, waiting until dusk to lift off like miniature helicopters into the night. In the wild legless lizards feed on a variety of small mammals, bird eggs and invertebrates such as insects and earthworms. The local farmers raise lac insects on the natural host trees and intercrop agricultural crops under the host trees as well. For insects on plants, demes may evolve in response to local abiotic features, rather than to the natal host plant. If you place the access outside, be sure it is insulated and weatherstripped against both the elements and intrusion by insects or small animals. The best Aleppo galls, collected in Asiatic Turkey, principally in the province of Aleppo, are collected before the insects escape. For instance, I remember well, I was taught that insects without wings evolved into insects with wings. We are all surrounded by zillions of bacteria, fungi, worms, insects and predators out looking for an easy meal. They also forage in shallow water for aquatic invertebrates and catch insects on foliage or near the surface of water. They are gaudy diurnal insects with scaled wings that are large in proportion to body. Common wasps are social insects and live in nests of up to around 10,000 workers. Stinging insects in the U.S. are bees, yellow jackets, hornets, wasps, and fire ants. Eddie watched from behind the screen door as the insects flew through the air. As the insects rub the scraper against the file, the wings amplify the sound, making it loud enough for other insects to hear. Since the claw flexor muscle in insects has no antagonist, claws and arolium are moved back by elastic recoil of stretched exocuticle. As she lived and worked in the rainforest of Ecuador, she had to look out for poisonous snakes, insects and plants. The most important insects vary with the season but the bulk of them are either mayflies, caddis, midges or terrestrials. Show More Sentences This alone should make the book desirable for those interested in amber or aficionados of fossil insects and spiders. I did see a few egrets in the fields and a group of blue-cheeked bee-eaters hawking for insects and perching on powerlines. And where appropriate, consider nonchemical ways to deter biting insects such as screens, netting, long-sleeves and slacks. But how do the birds, insects and animals that inhabit our countryside perceive their world? Like the other spot-breasted thrushes, the Hermit Thrush eats a combination of insects and berries. Occasionally the bears eat small mammals, fish, and insects for extra protein. During the breeding season, insects and insect larvae are the primary sources of food. Instead of finding something for her to eat, she found a nest of large insects of the predatory variety. Quinoa has a natural coating of saponin, the bitter taste of which repels insects and birds. It thus seems likely that the ancestral arthropod from which insects evolved had appendages on all its segments. On its brightly lit glass shelves sit trays piled with crispy crickets, grasshoppers, other insects and worms. This is applicable especially, but not exclusively, to so-called social insects such as bees, wasps, ants and termites. Young Atlantic salmon in streams eat mainly the larvae of aquatic insects such as blackflies, stoneflies, caddisflies, and chironomids. Pitchers are pitfall traps containing enzymes that digest insects and small animals. Tender and gallant, you've rescued these hapless insects from all sorts of scrapes and misadventures. Inspect your plants regularly for insects such as aphids, thrips, whiteflies, and other noxious pests, whether indoors or outdoors. The landscape appears to be lifeless, but is home to an array of insects and wildlife. The locally and regionally important grassland nature reserve is home to a range of rare insects and plants. Dwarf mongooses mainly feed on insects like termites, locusts, beetles, grubs, larvae and spiders. Some insects also hunt down spiders, including the mantis and a wasp that specializes in catching and paralyzing spiders. Show More Sentences Some tropical bird species rear their young near wasp nests and depend on the insects to repel predators. The white kaolin clay has extra fine particles that simultaneously thwart insects and act as an alkaline barrier to fungal spores. Outside were long lines of ants and other small insects hanging around and seemingly without very much to do. The ants were the most prolific of the insects we were likely to encounter daily. They seem to eat more annelid worms and insects than any other prey, and chicks are fed mostly earthworms. Perhaps more insidiously, insects such as fruit fly can carry spores associated with bunch rots, and mealy bug can transmit leaf roll virus. The Anna's Hummingbird feeds on a large variety of flowers as well as insects and spiders. The insects will feed on the seeds, and many commercial mesquite bean growers are dismayed at their presence. Pretty soon this all-purpose waste will have its appalling effect on insects stirring in the old boy's worryingly insecure glass tanks. Researchers at some locations focus on beneficial insects like wasps to control insect pests such as alfalfa weevils or gypsy moths. And, like any other vent, screen is used behind the louvers to prevent insects from getting in. The link between associative learning and fitness in such insects in not an obvious one. Its diet consists of aquatic insects which are attracted to its trenches by the aerated water it leaves in its wake. All around her there was the activity of woodland creatures, birds and mammals, insects and fish, continuing their role in the environment. Crab spiders do not build webs but ambush pollinating insects on flowers with their raptorial forelimbs. They also visit sapsucker holes and feed on sap and insects attracted to the holes. An understanding of factors that influence species richness of lotic insects is generally lacking. Leaves attacked by insects or disease, on the other hand, die under duress, spotted and curled. It in fact is toxic to only a particular group of lepidopteran insects and particularly cotton bollworms. The insects most likely to cause allergic reactions are wasps, honeybees, hornets, yellow jackets and ants. Show More Sentences Beds were made from straw, which of course is a home for insects of all kinds, particularly fleas, lice, and tics. Plankton are eaten by small fish and other animal organisms such as aquatic insects and their larvae, which in turn are eaten by larger fish. The wings of bats and insects are therefore analogous because they both function for flight, but are derived from different primitive structures. For example, ants, termites, many bees, and some wasps are social insects that form organized communities. The Javan rhinoceros often lies in streams, where small fish and crabs feed on the insects that live on its skin. The decaying wood also becomes home to a range of insects and small mammals. Bacteria and insects break down organic material to produce soil and nutrients so plants can grow. Zoophagous insects extract nutrients from a living animal host and represent a broad group of parasitic insects. In other cases it's been shown that veterinary wormers can kill invertebrate insects that are really critical for dung removal. However, clear evidence of nepotism in the rearing of queens in social insects is limited and controversial. Swifts screaming overhead, hawking for insects in their no-compromise lifestyle. They typically eat insects and floating vegetable matter but their diet also includes zooplankton, aquatic insect larvae, and worms. Other animals include snakes, such as the cobra, king cobra, and banded krait and countless insects and spiders. In Australia, stick insects are found in most places, but leaf insects are only found in north Queensland. The first land snails appeared, and insects with wings that can't fold back such as dragonflies and mayflies flourished and radiated. Look them over for any signs of insects and prune and repot any that may need it. In the winter, Chukars feed primarily on seeds, cheatgrass, and thistles, switching to insects and green leaves in the summer. The study of dietary effects on reproduction could help lead to year-round production of beneficial insects and their eggs. Like other species of thrushes, Varied Thrushes eat a combination of insects and berries, shifting seasonally. Hessian fly, greenbug, and wheat stem sawfly are the primary insects that attack wheat fields. Show More Sentences Fishing bats are large, yellow-orange, and rather pungent creatures that can hawk large flying insects or snag small ocean fish from the surf. The hatchet fish has a diet which is composed primarily of insects and larvae. On the breeding grounds, insects and insect larvae are the most important source of food. They were lightly built and were probably opportunistic feeders, eating insects as well as small vertebrates. Other insects observed in the nests were a few small, undetermined dipteran larvae in one nest, and small detritivorous rove beetles in 10 nests. Stilt Sandpipers eat a wide variety of insects and insect larvae during the breeding season. These hardy and tenacious insects have lived on the planet for 400 million years. On hot nights the lights of the bakehouse drew all the insects of Waugoola Shire, and strolling past you could smell the dough. They cannot accept that they are just beings the same as pets, farm beasts, flowers, insects et al. Many insects found on landscape plants are transients or beneficials, part of the natural community that helps keep pest species at low levels. 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. Although yellow jackets are social insects like honeybees, they use their nests for only one season. Spread over 460 acres, the estate is known to be home to an amazing variety of birds, insects and animals, apart from flora. Even if I only travel to Blackpool I am harassed by all manner of insects that want to suck every last drop of blood out of me. One of the few insects to conquer the oceans, some intrepid species venture hundreds of miles across becalmed tropical seas. They may survive the winter, when fewer insects are available, by becoming torpid. Busy, often burrowing insects such as tok-tokkies and sunspiders scuttle across the desert floor. Greater Poison potions can be used to combat insects or parasites that infest a hive. In ancient Egypt they worshipped all kinds of creatures even insects and bugs like a scarab beetle. Colisa uses the same technique as archerfishes to prey on insects just above the water. Show More Sentences As the name suggests, anteaters eat ants and termites in vast quantities, sometimes up to 30,000 insects in a single day. This is followed by a discussion of metamorphosis in insects and amphibians. Too, they can mean that your home is attractive to wood boring insects like termites. Nor would they be able to gasp enough oxygen through their tracheae, the breathing system that limits most insects to the half-inch scale. Probably the most common method of transmission is by means of biting insects such as mosquitoes, midges, and flies. The leaves are used as hiding places for insects in the fall, winter and spring. Treatment may be warranted if the insects are actively feeding and defoliation is expected to increase. Terrestrial animal life was limited to unwinged insects like millipedes and scorpions. They often left windows open, and used a brand name residential insecticide to kill the biting insects that got into their home. White cobwebs hung from one corner of the shop, the occupant long since dead, molt shells from various insects scattered across the floor. They probably subsisted on insects and other small terrestrial invertebrates and perhaps even on small vertebrates. The second family includes some but by no means all of the insects which bear the name cricket. This conquest through biocontrol has spurred the search for other insects to match the range of climates where the water hyacinth thrives. But however insane a cloud of these biting insects may drive you, there is an upside. However, insects remained very rare and marginal members of the terrestrial fauna through the Mississippian. The adults of most species feed on nectar and honeydew produced by aphids and other sucking insects like leafhoppers, whiteflies and mealybugs. They also use screening and filtration to keep insects out of rooms and sticky strips to catch those that do get in. Apart from bees, most insects seem to have little or no purpose in life, but everything about rats is evil, dirty and vile. Good additional habitats have been created, for example woodpiles which encourage insects and newts. This is because debris, wind, bugs or insects may still pass behind a windshield. Show More Sentences This plant will keep insects away when used in oil burners and in massage will relieve muscle tension. In rainy periods, when few insects are flying, the birds switch to ground feeding. Consequently, pest control agencies are scrambling aeroplanes and ground forces in a bid to kill the insects before their wings grow. In addition, oils disrupt feeding by insects such as flea beetles, whiteflies, and aphids without necessarily killing them. Typhus is caused by rickettsia, bacteria-like microorganisms transmitted through blood-sucking insects such as fleas, lice, and ticks. Floating row covers should be placed over new transplants or newly seeded areas following planting to prevent insects from attacking emerging plants. A plant that is seeded at the right depth in the right soil mix with the correct amounts of sunlight, air and water will resist insects and diseases. Yesterday, he took his Rainforest Roadshow to the school and introduced the children to tropical insects such as millipedes, tarantulas and scorpions. Whooping crane young are fed dragonfly larvae, insects and tadpoles. Contrary to popular belief, these insects do not hop, jump, or fly. Plant bugs and rose chafers are attracted to white, so if these insects are a problem, use white index cards and smear petroleum jelly on them to snare the insects. Aphids, cabbage loopers, flea beetles, leafhoppers and leaf miners are some of the insects that attack lettuce, but slug are the most notorious for loving lettuce. Electric bug zappers kill more beneficial insects than mosquitoes. One of the best-known forms of mutualism involves insects that pollinate a host plant, then deposit offspring that will ultimately consume many of the seeds. These faceless and thankfully fangless insects might at first give the comic impression of scuttling in search of food. Curving appendages attached to oblong shapes or to punctured spheres in some of the works may allude to other life-forms such as insects or invertebrates. The view is sublime, and here Jefferson and his company were accustomed to sit, bareheaded, in the summer until bed-time, having neither dew nor insects to annoy them. Carnivorous animals will eat live insects and some will eat mice and rats. Useful insects include silkworms and ladybirds that predate upon aphids. The aim of the project was to produce publications of reference on the taxonomy, biology and ecology of parasitoids attacking conifer-feeding xylophagous insects in Europe. Show More Sentences By shooting jets or bullets of water, and correcting for light refraction, archerfishes knock insects down to the water surface and quickly consume them. Insects such as houseflies, bedbugs, locusts, butterflies, honeybees, silkworms, lac insects etc. are well known to mankind, largely due to their economic importance. Also, as lac insects are cultured on host trees, promotion of lac and its culture helps in eco-system development as well as reasonably high economic returns. In this paper, the species resources and genetic diversity of lac insects were briefly introduced, and the lac productive model was also put forward. The dry and hot valley of the Honghe River in Yunnan is the best place suitable to the growth of lac insects and the best region for high grade lac production. Reports from Thailand indicate that the lac insect became a serious pest of fruit trees, so much so that the insects had to be controlled by chemical and bio-control methods! The setting sun cast elongated shadows over the flat landscape and welcomed blood-sucking insects to an evening of feasting around the small watering hole. In addition, weeds left uncontrolled may harbor insects and diseases and produce seed or rootstocks which infest the field and affect future crops. I read about abiogenesis, the belief that animals and insects can be spontaneously generated from dew, piles of old clothes, the slime in wells, and mud. For your gaming pleasure, a whole new assortment of mutant insects have been created including killer roaches, acid-shooting houseflies and fire ants. Like most wrens, Marsh Wrens eat primarily insects and spiders. There seems to be the implicit assumption that queens of social insects have little or no cost of reproduction because they are amply supplied with resources by their workers. Buzzards are all flying around pecking at them, and there are insects and flies, and you can see blood on the ground. It appears that these seed applied insecticides and liquid insecticides will be effective in protecting seeds from seed feeding insects such as wireworms and seedcorn maggots. Last, but not least, you'll have to make sure you've got an assortment of warrior ants guarding your anthill against unwanted insects and animals. Many animals and insects that taste awful, sting or can otherwise turn a good day sour have adapted this warning-label strategy, known as aposematic coloration. Head lice are small wingless flat insects which move from one person to another by direct head-to-head contact and live off human blood in the scalp. A diverse assemblage of winged insects appears suddenly in the fossil record about 330 million years ago, and there are few clues about their evolutionary lineage. The wings of these tiny insects are simple hair-fringed struts. Both bats and martins, it turns out, prefer larger insects such as beetles, moths, flies, wasps and bees, which give a better return on their energy efforts. Show More Sentences Head lice are insects living on the human scalp and feeding on blood. The first tetrapods, or land-living vertebrates, appeared during the Devonian, as did the first terrestrial arthropods, including wingless insects and the earliest arachnids. Artists' impressions have been drawn up to simulate how the classroom could look, with a boggy area designed to encourage frogs and other insects to the land. 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. The term exoskeleton refers to the hard outer shell found on insects and certain animals like grasshoppers and crabs. The exhibit points out, for instance, that immobile plants face over 500,000 types of insects who want to feed on them. Biting insects are at best a nuisance, but imagine an individual in a hut, sick with a high fever and beset by swarms of biting insects to add to their torment. Taylor notes that some insects swallow air to inflate their bodies when shedding their shells, but it's unknown whether they also use the air for skeletal support. I guess you could say spiders, and trapdoor spiders in particular, also cunningly construct hides and then lie in wait for unsuspecting insects to pass. As described there may also be a trapping zone into which the insects fall and come into contact with a fluid, a powder, a desiccant, a chemical toxicant or a sticky surface. Aerial plankton traps deployed on ships and airplanes have documented a diversity of small to minute terrestrial insects and arachnids in the air stream over the open Pacific. Window screens are designed to keep insects out, but because they are not strong enough to keep children inside, they will not prevent falls from windows. The most exotic of all is the rafflesia, a cabbagey survivor of ancient days, which measures up to a metre across and makes its living by devouring insects and small mammals. Among all the insects only beetles have these specialized fore-wings. There are two dozen species of birds, many of which winter in Europe, mammals such as polar bears and lemmings and many species of insects and plants. All those insects crawling all over me would scare the bejesus out of me. Surely there was gaiety in summer, but for now, gray titmice moved close to the ground, almost silent, probably killing the insects who only wanted to sleep until spring. The illusionist even claims that one of the islands contains the fountain of youth, reviving dying insects upon submersion. The restorative properties of the peppermint and spearmint plant specifically, have fascinated herbalists and repelled insects for thousands of years. Bassam handed me a large piece, with no attempt to wave away the swirl of winged insects dive-bombing from all directions. Show More Sentences Risley Moss in Warrington is the last remnant of a vast swathe of peat bog, providing an ideal habitat for hundreds of birds, animals, insects and plants. It was a rich source of food for many insects and the berries are eaten by a number of birds, including thrushes, fieldfares and waxwings, which are themselves in decline. Sometimes, they were left to be eaten by insects or wild beasts. Jacamars prefer to eat large, showy, flying insects such as blue morpho butterflies, hawk moths, and venomous insects such as wasps, ants, and sawflies. Related to cuckoo-hawks, bazas are generally most active at dusk, when they search the foliage of forest trees for large insects and small lizards. In his own work he's now studying large Venezuelan bombardiers to learn how the insects aim their weapons and to understand more about the glands involved. Sap-sucking insects such as aphids carry viruses between plants. They also kill pollinating insects such as bees and butterflies. The same two trenches, home to fish and insects including the harmless but nasty sounding water scorpions, are used every year. Chytrid fungi are common pathogens of plants and insects but had never before been known to attack vertebrates. Male scale insects are mostly haploid, undergo an unusual metamorphosis, and feed only in the first two instars. Although H. bertonii relies on scale insects to prepare its parasitism site on plants, it directly absorbs and utilizes plant sugars. It also eats carrion, berries, seaweed, and insects and other small invertebrates. Another important area of symbiosis between carnivorous plants and insects is pollination. In Kansas and other south-central states, aeration is also used to manage insects in stored wheat. A carnivorous plant that catches no insects at all will rarely die, although its growth may be impaired. There is an especially diverse array of endemic insects like the conspicuous Arsenura armida. However, some people have severe reactions to bed bug bites, and getting rid of the insects can be costly. Index of the known fossil insects of the world including myriapods and arachnids. Certain chemicals found in perfume are often toxic, at least for small insects if not for humans. Show More Sentences Thankfully, insects generally aren't a problem but the red spider mite and the mealy bug are the main pests attracted to poinsettias. The month was great for spring insects including mining bees and parasitic bee flies. Smallpox is not known to be transmitted by insects or animals and there is no asymptomatic carrier state. The estate also cultivates crops, such as white mustard with kale, which encourage bees, insects and provide cover for ground nesting birds. For example, Green Herons and Squacco Herons actively fish with insects as bait. When the pyramid was originally built in 300 BCE, there were insects painted in black, red, and yellow on it. Common insects that are usually a problem in UAE residences include primarily bed bugs, followed by cockroaches and ants, silverfish and ants. Fish and Wildlife Service are those insects that visit an endangered plant, the Lane Mountain milk-vetch. These are critical building factors, as is the ongoing threat of wood-burrowing insects such as termites and carpenter bees. The excretion of the resin by certain plants is thought to be an evolutionary adaptation for protection from insects and to seal wounds. Lesser horseshoe bats mainly eat small flying insects such as midges but they also take crane flies, moths and caddis flies. As insects go, thysanurans are about as primitive as an arthropod can get and still be considered an insect. Significantly, the insects suffered no discernible population loss, which left them available as food for other survivors. The flash aids in attracting pollinating insects and temperature regulation of the flower's reproductive organs. Marshes provide a habitat for many species of plants, animals, and insects that have adapted to living in flooded conditions. Paternally inherited mitochondria have additionally been reported in some insects such as fruit flies, honeybees, and periodical cicadas. Check plants for early signs of infestation by insects such as aphids and spittlebugs. This is thought to be the first study showing a link between NAO and terrestrial insects in North America. However, the Permian extinction at 252 Mya greatly impacted these insects in mass extinction, being the only mass extinction to affect insects. A few lichen species are eaten by insects or larger animals, such as reindeer. Show More Sentences Mints are supposed to make good companion plants, repelling pesty insects and attracting beneficial ones. These included beautiful plants like sundew and butterwort and insects like the bog bush cricket and large heath butterfly. Which British bird is also called the butcherbird because of its habit of hanging dead insects on bushes? Another strategy is seen in the stinkhorns, a group of fungi with lively colors and putrid odor that attract insects to disperse their spores. Because of this, people throughout history have used garlic to keep away insects such as mosquitoes and slugs. This find is the first evidence of fossilised orchids to date and shows insects were active pollinators of orchids then. Extant beaded lacewings are rare, slender, small to medium insects that have a worldwide distribution. Motorists bugged by insects splatting into their cars are being asked to help with a ground-breaking project. There are scorpions and spiders, bees, butterflies, stick insects and the amazing leaf-cutter ant colony in the insect house. Some crustaceans are more closely related to insects and other hexapods than they are to certain other crustaceans. A batch of babies' muesli has been recalled after insects were found in it. Unlike vertebrates, insects do not generally carry oxygen in their haemolymph. Abate will operate by luring anthropophilic insects of disease to feed on livestock treated with the product. In England, yew has historically been sometimes associated with privies, possibly because the smell of the plant keeps insects away. Others have hard exoskeletons, outer shells like those of insects and crustaceans. A number of stick insects and cave crickets also died, along with a colony of about 500,000 leaf-cutting ants. The cutest little blue wren eats voraciously of the insects and grubs that are silly enough to be in the same patch of ground he is. Instead, most of the suffering species ate insects on the forest floor. They also feed on beetles, moths, leaf-hoppers and other insects that cost farmers and foresters billions of dollars every year. All owls are carnivorous birds of prey and live mainly on a diet of insects and small rodents such as mice, rats, and hares. Show More Sentences The bacteria produce a protein that is toxic when ingested by certain lepidopteran insects such as European corn borers and tobacco budworms. Tiger beetles are predaceous insects that are important biodiversity indicators. During the Quaternary Period, mammals, flowering plants, and insects dominated the land. As a result, it is estimated that more than half of insects on the Graciosa island have disappeared or will become extinct. The foliage is also eaten by the larvae of some Lepidopteran insects including the moth willow beauty. The marsh terns normally catch insects in the air or pick them off the surface of fresh water. They are common in gardens and can be encouraged to enter and help remove pest insects by placing black plastic or a piece of tin on the ground. Only the ooaa still lives in the forests of Hawaii, feeding on insects and some nectar. Due to infestations by key insects and diseases, organic production is difficult in Europe. Avian malaria is carried by the mosquito Culex pipens, and high densities of these biting insects may force pelican colonies to be abandoned. To the plant the excreta are more readily assimilable than intact insects would be. The infected insects transmit the disease to humans in mosquito bites, which is the only way people can catch the virus. Alternatively, insects can be retained by making the leaf stickier by the production of mucilage, leading to flypaper traps. Plants that were better at retaining insects or water therefore had a selective advantage. Young house sparrows are fed mostly on insects until about 15 days after hatching. Species complexes occur in insects such as Heliconius butterflies, vertebrates such as Hypsiboas treefrogs, and fungi such as the fly agaric. It reaches its greatest densities in urban centres, but its reproductive success is greater in suburbs, where insects are more abundant. These single-celled protozoa get shuttled among people and animals by several species of insects called kissing bugs or assassin bugs. So Eddie and I decided to compile a book ourselves, on the whole range of Cyprus fauna, from insects to moufflon. It feeds mostly on the seeds of grains and weeds, but it is an opportunistic eater and commonly eats insects and many other foods. Find more words! 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