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• Barn swallows are small insectivorous passerines that feed on the wing.
• Seeps in sand hills support acid bog species including southern sweetbay, gallberry, wax-myrtles, fetterbush, insectivorous plants, orchids, and wild azalea. Ecoregions of Louisiana (EPA)
• Insectivores are fairly common because insects are very common but the small size and low nutrient value of insects means that most insectivorous mammals are small, except the anteaters.
• I have been working for some time on a special subject, namely insectivorous plants. More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2
• Data will show exactly how good a year this has been for these insectivorous birds. Times, Sunday Times
• These bats are primarily insectivorous (although they have been observed to eat fruit on occasion) and hawk insects in flight.
• Plants such as birds-eye primrose, wild thyme, bilberry and the insectivorous butterwort will expand, creating spectacular landscapes.
• This order, which includes lemurs, monkeys, apes, and man, seems to have sprung from a creodont or insectivorous ancestry in the lower Eocene. The Elements of Geology
• Equally surprising are the mouthparts of the creature's curious digestive track that suggest a rather singular amalgam of arthropodous characteristics with those of insectivorous plants.
• Furthermore, when the bellbirds, tuis, kaka, and native insectivorous birds attempt to feed on native invertebrates, they again face competition from wasps, which devour spiders, caterpillars, ants, bees, and flies.