insectivore

How To Use insectivore In A Sentence

• Primarily an insectivore, the desman's diet consists of aquatic insects and their larvae, along with snails and small, slow-moving fish, which are attracted to its trenches by the musk smell and aerated water it leaves in its wake.
• Insectivore molars from category 5 predator assemblages are even more dramatically digested.
• All moles are insectivores and all of them are great tunnelers.
• The various species of rapacious animals are disappearing, together with the colonies of marmots; the insectivores are also becoming scarce in consequence of the destruction of insects, while vermin, such as the suslik (_Spermophilus_), become a real plague, as also the destructive insects which have been a scourge to agriculture during recent years. Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers
• Some mammal teeth from the Paleocene of France show characters of both bats and insectivores (the group including the hedgehogs, shrews and moles of today).
• Offering seeds may attract lots of birds, but generally insectivores prefer suet (found at the meat counter at your grocery).
• On Cuba, three species of rodent and two species of nesophont primitive shrewlike insectivores unique to the Caribbean have disappeared. The Song of The Dodo
• On the breeding grounds, Hermit Thrushes are strict insectivores, eating primarily coleopteran adults and larvae and lepidopteran larvae.
• One of the interesting things about shrews, hedgehogs, moles and solenodons is that they are insectivores (they eat mostly insects.)
• It could be a marsupial rat or mole or something opossumlike, or a rodent, insectivore, or even a primate akin to a tarsier or loris.