Don't forget our helpful insectivores -bats and frogs. ❋ Unknown (2011)
In rocky areas there are colonies of rock hyrax Procavia capensis and there are stable unthreatened populations of smaller mammals: burrowing rodents, insectivores and bats. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The solar energy captured by chloroplasts in plants lies at the base of complicated food chains, in which the energy passes from plants through herbivores, which may be insects, through carnivores, which may be insects or insectivores as well as wolves and leopards, through scavengers such as vultures and dung beetles, and eventually to agents of decay such as fungi and bacteria. ❋ RICHARD DAWKINS (2009)
These days, the limit on terrestrial arthropods may well be ecological – they have to deal with a lot of larger insectivores. ❋ Unknown (2009)
They are insectivores, although they do eat just about anything small that moves, and will eat fruit too. ❋ Glenda Larke (2009)
Herbivorous mammals like horses, cattle and elephants have great millstone-like teeth for grinding cellulose, quite different from the shearing teeth of carnivores and the needly teeth of insectivores. ❋ RICHARD DAWKINS (2009)
Relative to the size of Palawan, the ecoregion contains a rich fauna, including several groups that are not found in the rest of the Philippines (carnivores, pangolins, porcupines, and some insectivores). ❋ Unknown (2008)
Large insectivores such as ground pangolin (Smutsia temminckii) and aardvark (Orycteropus afer) feed on the numerous ants and termites found in the miombo. ❋ Unknown (2008)
On the major mountain massifs of Madagascar, species richness of numerous groups, such as birds, reptiles and amphibians decreases with altitude, while other taxa such as rodents and insectivores (Lipotyphla) show distinct mid-elevational bulges. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Other species recorded from the Kurile Islands include: six insectivores, six chiropterans, nine carnivores, nine rodents, and one lagomorph. ❋ Unknown (2008)
But since moles are technically insectivores, not rodents, products marketed to control moles are not considered rodenticides and are exempted from those restrictions. ❋ Unknown (2008)
A one-man publicity machine for the darting insectivores, Mr. Wade published two books on them and claimed to have sold more than one million birdhouses. ❋ Unknown (2007)
It is relatively rich in mammalian species, with some 40 insectivores represented, including 23 bat species. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Primates were originally insectivores so maybe she's on to something.... ❋ Field Notes (2006)
From the New Scientist : When the dinosaurs ruled the world, the mammals hid in the shadows, daring to grow no bigger than shrew-like insectivores that hunted at night. ❋ Zoe Brain (2005)
CORWIN: But these animals are insectivores, they're eating a lot of insects. ❋ Unknown (2005)
[Drosera] kapensis is a insectivorous [plant]. ❋ Moondecareses (2020)
