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the insect on a hard surface. During this process, pressure is applied to the insect's body, thereby discharging most of the venom. Most bee-eaters are...

green bee-eater) are now considered distinct species: the African green bee-eater and the Arabian green bee-eater. They are mainly insect eaters and they...

little bee-eaters. They breed in open country with bushes, preferably near water. Just as the name suggests, bee-eaters predominantly eat insects, especially...

leave the hive and other insect prey are harder for the bee-eaters to detect. Many bee-keepers believe that the bee-eaters are the main obstacle causing...

South Wales. Megalibgwilia was probably an insect-eater, like the short-beaked echidna, rather than a worm-eater like members of Zaglossus. M. robusta, once...

once found throughout parts of the Hawaiian island of Kauaʻi. It was an insect eater that picked out its tiny prey from tree bark. The males were yellowish...

The rainbow bee-eater (Merops ornatus) is a near passerine bird in the bee-eater family Meropidae. The rainbow bee-eater is the only species of Meropidae...

tracks "ponderous" but liked the later tracks, saying that the track "Insect Eater" "really scorches the rocket cottage with Lovich's repeated shrieks of...

bee-eaters, blues and pinkish or cinnamon browns predominating. The two inner front toes are connected, but not the outer one. They are mainly insect eaters...

country than most bee-eaters. This attractive bird is readily approached. Just as the name suggests, bee-eaters predominantly eat insects, especially bees...

European bee-eater. White-throated bee-eaters also feed and roost communally. As the name suggests, bee-eaters predominantly eat insects, especially bees...

(used to refer to an insect) and phagos (voracious eater); N.L. fem. n. entomophaga insect eater. Hurst, M.R.H.; Becher, S.A.; Young, S.D.; Nelson, T...

solitary and territorial. Even the birds-of-paradise that are primarily insect eaters will still take large amounts of fruit. The family is overall an important...

large carnivores and omnivores in most ecosystems. Examples of carrion-eaters (or scavengers) include crows, vultures, humans, hawks, eagles, hyenas,...

seed-eaters in Cardinalidae (cardinals and grosbeaks), smaller-billed seed-eaters in Emberizidae (New World finches and sparrows), ground-foraging insect-eaters...

period, about 170 mya. These early eutherians were small, nocturnal insect eaters, with adaptations for life in trees. True placentals may have originated...

known as mosquito hawks or "skeeter-eaters", though they do not actually prey on adult mosquitos or other insects. They are also sometimes called "daddy...

sexes sing prolifically. the young are more brown. Butcherbirds are insect eaters for the most part, but will also feed on small lizards and other vertebrates...

Swallows are tolerated by humans because of their beneficial role as insect eaters, and some species have readily adapted to nesting in and around human...

passing insects by making quick hawking flights or gliding down before hovering briefly to catch the prey. This species, like other bee-eaters, is a richly...