Insectivorous

Pyrrolizidine alkaloids render these larvae and adult moths unpalatable to many of their natural enemies like coccinelid beetles, green lacewings, insectivorous hemiptera and insectivorous bats.

For example, will insectivorous bats begin to feed more as winters become milder?

For non-grassland bird and non-insectivorous bird populations, the annual reduction caused by neonicotinoid uses in the period is about 2%.

Endothermy requires plenty of food energy, so mammals eat more food per unit of body weight than most reptiles. citation Small insectivorous mammals eat prodigious amounts for their size.

Gastroliths from a plesiosaur Most reptiles are insectivorous or carnivorous and have rather simple and comparatively short digestive tracts, meat being fairly simple to break down and digest.

Granivorous birds such as the queleas in Africa are among the most numerous birds in the world and foraging flocks can cause devastation. citation citation Many insectivorous birds are also noted as beneficial in agriculture.

Its success is partly attributed to its insectivorous diet, for which it faced no competition from canids crossing from North America.

Lepidoptera, especially the immature stages, are an ecologically important food to many insectivorous birds, such as the great tit in Europe.

Mammals that weigh less than about 18 oz (500 g) are mostly insectivorous because they cannot tolerate the slow, complex digestive process of an herbivore.

Meanwhile, the stocky herbivorous rhynchosaurs and the small to medium-sized insectivorous or piscivorous Prolacertiformes were important basal archosauromorph groups throughout most of the Triassic.

Of the dog-like hyena lineage, only the insectivorous aardwolf survived, while the bone-crushing hyenas (including the extant spotted, brown and striped hyenas) became the undisputed top scavengers of Eurasia and Africa.

The only large insectivorous mammals are those that feed on huge colonies of insects ( ants or termites ).

The three African trogons are exclusively insectivorous, whereas the Asian and American genera consume varying amounts of fruit.

They gave rise to insectivorous vertebrates and, later, to predators of other tetrapods. citation Carnivores may alternatively be classified according to the percentage of meat in their diet.

With the exception of the finches, all the English songbirds may be said to be insectivorous, and their diet consists chiefly of vast numbers of very small insects which they collect from the grass and herbs before the dew is dry.