entomophagous

This form of parasitism is especially common among entomophagous parasites.

The larvae, like those of other Asiloidea have an entomophagous diet and they live as predators.

It thus belongs to the entomophagous parasites.

These insects are known as entomophagous parasites.

She also misuses the word "entomophagous" to mean insect-like; it actually means something that eats insects.

A natural enemy of the grasshoppers, the entomophagous fungus, would help control their numbers, but it only thrives in wet weather.

About 10% of described insect species are entomophagous parasitoids.

Insects form an important part of the food chain, especially for entomophagous vertebrates such as many mammals, birds, amphibians and reptiles.

Larvae and pupae are links in the diet of birds and parasitic entomophagous insects.

Evidence suggests that evolutionary precurors of Homo sapiens were likely also entomophagous.

B. bagarius is primarily entomophagous.

Insects, nematodes and fungi that obtain their nutrition from insects are sometimes termed entomophagous, especially in the context of biological control applications.

Entomophagous parasites (coined from Greek entomon "insect" and Gk.

The caterpillars of this butterfly like other members of the subfamily Miletinae are entomophagous and are predators of scale insects.

Xenos vesparum is an insect species, whose females are permanent entomophagous endoparasites of Polistes paper wasps.

Cave paintings in Altamira, north Spain, dated to about 30,000 to 9,000 BC, depict the collection of wild bee nests, suggesting a possibly entomophagous society.

Lycaenids are diverse in their food habits and apart from phytophagy, some of them are entomophagous feeding on aphids, scale insects, and ant larvae.

The digestive system is relatively simple, and lacks many of the adaptations found in other entomophagous animals, presumably because termites are easier to digest than ants, having a softer exoskeleton.

Although most caterpillars are herbivorous, a few species such as Spalgis epius and Liphyra brassolis are entomophagous (insect eating).

Necrobiont insects includes necrophagous and entomophagous trophic specializations, or necrophagous, predaceous/parasitic and omnivorous species.

With regard to feeding behavior, most of the literature gives the larvae of the Asilidae as entomophagous, but there are also doubts about the real nature of the trophic regime and its mechanisms.

Youngsteadt, E. & P.J. DeVries (2005) The effects of ants on the entomophagous butterfly caterpillar Feniseca tarquinius, and the role of chemical camouflage in the Feniseca-ant interaction.