Flies may travel for a considerable distance to reach food and shelter, though normally they pass to dwellings and other sources of food supply in the immediate neighborhood of their breeding places.
The total length of the nymphal stage varies greatly, depending upon conditions of food supply, temperature and possibly other factors.
Girault (1912) found the postembryonic period as low as twenty-nine days and as high as seventy days under apparently similar and normal conditions of food supply.
Under optimum and normal conditions of food supply, beginning August 27, the average nymphal life was 69.
All animals are more or less adaptive, and avail themselves of new sources of food supply.
The birds and beasts all quickly avail themselves of any new source of food supply.
They lingered till the fruit of the peach orchards had set, when they discovered that here was a new source of food supply, and they became very destructive to the promised crop by deftly cutting out the embryo peaches.
The city is dependent upon the country for its food supply, and the farmers are dependent upon the city for their market.
This requires so much of his time that he does little or no farming, and depends upon others for his food supply.
In these days when a condition of food shortage exists in the greater part of the civilized world, any question which concerns a nation's food supply is of public interest.
With a vanishing animal industry, nut culture offers the only practical solution of the question of food supply.
When the larvae have exhausted their food supply, they extend their nest by taking in fresh leaves, but always feed inside the nest, differing in this respect from the tent caterpillar which makes its nests here in May.
And on nothing was its disturbing influence upon the normal more potent than in relation to food supply.
The only safe plan was to try to insure a food supply for a reasonably long time in advance.
Japanese defeat Germans on outskirts of Kiao-Chau; food supply in city short.
Reproductive success, food supply, and the evolution of clutch-size in the glaucous-winged gull.
What effects do quantitative and qualitative (species composition of prey) changes in food supply have on the survival of chicks?
Tremendous snowdrifts and persistent gales from the west made traveling next to impossible, and, with no game and no food supply in prospect, I knew that to remain idle would be suicidal.
With the assurance of a food supply, a course was set to enter Wellington Channel and push along to Lancaster Sound, where I hoped a Scottish whaler could be reached in July or August.
This meat guaranteed a food supplyto the shores of the Polar sea.
I have constantly repeated to Your Majesty, and shows that in the question of food supply we are on the very verge of a catastrophe.
Could it be affirmed that the North American Indians had increased to a point where they pressed upon the food supply, it would imply a very much larger population than we are justified in assuming from other considerations.
It is said to be true that a large percentage of them soon pass into family care, and thus not only help to educate parents, but become a permanent additional source of food supply.
It offered some steadiness of food supply and so appealed to his dawning sense of stability.
Further, the water is a source of food supply and an easier means of communication than the jungle to other sources of food supply.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "food supply" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
