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insectivorous

[in‚sek′tiv·ə·rəs]
(biology)
Feeding on a diet of insects.
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Otherwise, "if you lose the control factor of insectivorous birds," warns Dartmouth's Holmes, "you run the risk of insect population explosions that could greatly reduce forest growth.
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The case in this report is the sixth since 1980 in which insectivorous bats were implicated.
Human rabies - New York, 1993
Use of spatial features by foraging insectivorous bats in a large urban landscape.
El uso de los parques urbanos con vegetacion por murcielagos insectivoros en San Jose, Costa Rica
the Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia, a terrestrial insectivorous bird, disappeared when ponds were formed).
Structure of bird assemblages in dry and seasonally flooded grasslands in Itirapina Ecological Station, Sao Paulo state/Estrutura das assembleias de aves em campos limpos secos e sazonalmente alagaveis na Estacao Ecologica de Itirapina, estado de Sao Paulo
It seems reasonable to expect that reduction of normal dentition to a total of eight teeth in an insectivorous bat would severely affect its food-processing abilities.
Extreme periodontal disease in a Brazilian free-tailed bat (molossidae: Tadarida brasiliensis) from eastern Texas
Insectivorous bats in tropical communities consist of species that fly rapidly, fly slowly, hover or glean so that flight characteristics of bats may result in partitioning of food resources (Norberg, 1994), although most species combine two or more strategies and communities may contain very similar species.
Prey consumed by eight species of insectivorous bats from Southern Illinois
The round-leaved sundew, an insectivorous plant, can be found on the wet, acidic soils around Eston Mire.
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Analyses of several cases of human rabies infections have reported insectivorous bats as the source (3).
Distinct lineage of vesiculovirus from big brown bats, United States
Potamotrygon signata shows insectivorous feeding habits, consuming mainly Diptera larvae and Ephemeroptera nymphs.
Insectivory in Potamotrygon signata (Chondrichthyes: Potamotrygonidae), an endemic freshwater stingray from the Parnaiba River basin, northeastern Brazil/Insetivoria em Potamotrygon signata (Chondrichthyes: Potamotrygonidae), uma raia de agua doce endemica da bacia do rio Parnaiba, nordeste do Brasil
Insectivorous bats might be less limited by availability of food (Fenton, 1982) than other resources, such as availability of maternal roost sites (Humphrey, 1975).
Trophic ecology of the free-tailed bats Nyctinomops femorosaccus and Tadarida brasiliensis (Chiroptera: Molossidae) in Big Bend National Park, Texas
as savanna restoration progressed) there was a guild shift from Insectivorous Air Salliers to Insectivorous Bark Gleaners (Fig.
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These insectivorous plants have additional benefits when used in a terrarium.
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