predacious

How To Use predacious In A Sentence

• Dorothy McKey-Fender is still writing (on predacious worms, at the moment), and after coming out of the woods, Fender and I visit her at her house in McMinnville, Oregon.
• With no parental care the eggs are vulnerable to predators such as cray fish, predacious insects and small fish.
• They are predacious, catching with their hindlegs soft-bodied insects, such as true flies and spiders.
• The ground beetles, or Carabidae, are just one of the largely predacious insect families designed for the job.
• Rodians evolved as hunters, killing much of the wildlife and predacious species on their planet to extinction.
• A useful aid to hygiene is keeping a few predacious fish, such as barbel (Clarias spp.), in each pool to clean up scraps of uneaten food. Chapter 7
• These flies do not bite or sting humans, and are considered beneficial, as they are predacious on aphids and other insects.
• a predacious kind of animal--the early geological gangster
• Thus, the predacious larvae do not increase in number as a result of resource dynamics.
• The last animals were such accomplished killers that they achieved a level of professionalism rarely seen among predacious beasts.