Among the "protected" insects are the milkweed butterflies and their caterpillars, which are provided with secretions that are distasteful to birds and predaceous insects.
Although they appear so early in the spring, they must be especially tempting to grazing cattle and predaceous insects, the rosettes remain untouched, while other succulent, agreeable plants are devoured wholesale.
In the male child the predaceous interval is ordinarily fairly well marked and lasts for some time, but it is commonly terminated (if at all) with the attainment of maturity.
In the girls there is a less general prevalence of a predaceous interval in the development; and in the cases where it occurs, the predaceous and isolating attitude during the interval is commonly less accentuated.
This is especially true if his dominant impulses are the unreflecting emulative propensities of the predaceous temperament.
It is as ancillary to the predaceous impulse proper that the belief in luck expresses itself in a wager.
A homely and familiar fact may serve to show that the predaceous impulse does not prevail in the same degree in all classes.
In girls the transition to the predaceous stage is seldom accomplished with the same degree of completeness as in boys; and in a relatively large proportion of cases it is scarcely undergone at all.
This aphorism offers a valuation of the predaceous temperament, and of the disciplinary effects of its overt expression and exercise, as seen from the moralist's point of view.
For the purposes of economic theory, these further barbarian traits may be taken as concomitant variations of that predaceoustemper of which prowess is an expression.
Its bright and shining appearance when spinning and glancing through the water is well-nigh irresistible to a predaceous fish, and is in itself all that could be desired as an effective lure.
It is a very predaceous fish and feeds principally on small minnows and the young of other fishes, also on crawfish, tadpoles, small frogs, insects, etc.
They are an inch and a half long and are readily distinguishable from all other water insects except thepredaceous diving beetles (Dyticus).
Water-tiger, the larva of the predaceous water-beetle, Dyticus sp.
Have live water-tigers and predaceous water-beetles in the aquarium.
They arepredaceous in habit, catching and killing insects, snails, earthworms, etc.
They are the most highly organized molluscan forms, and their predaceous habits and the great size to which some of them attain have given them distinction among the fierce and dangerous creatures of the sea.
The dragon-flies are the insect-hawks; they are predaceous and very voracious, and are probably the most expert flyers of all insects.
This struggle and the downfall of the many and success of the victorious few can be observed by rearing in a small jar of water all the young of a single brood of water-tigers (larva of Dyticus) or other aquatic predaceous insect.
Repeated episodes of subjugation and suppression mixed with countless incidents of predaceouscupidity and rapacity have made Man what he is today.
But latent in that move were all the terrible possibilities of the tiger, the alligator, the wolf and all the varieties of predaceous beast and plant, parasitism and slavery.
These servants of a predaceous principle are nearly, if not quite, its earliest prey.
Cockroach, Hawaii (Illingworth, 1917): This predaceous bug is commonly found about buildings.
Morphologically, the species is intermediate between certain predaceous and phytophagous mites (Pritchard, 1956).
Predaceous reduviid bugs and fossors, with their prey, from the S.
Members of this family are predaceous (Baker and Wharton, 1952).
They are pre-eminently predaceous forms, which lie hidden during the day and seek their prey by night.
It is now known that they are the larval forms of various species of the genus Trombidium, a group of predaceous forms, the adults of which feed primarily on insects and their eggs.
The species of this genus, as far as known, are predaceous or feed on recently killed animal matter.
As in the case of a number of other predaceous Hemiptera, the salivary glands of these forms are highly developed.
Such, for example, are the scorpions, certain spiders and mites, some of the predaceous bugs, and stinging insects.
The species are more active and predaceous than those of Coregonus and are, on the whole, inferior as food.
They are not voracious, and predaceous fishes feed freely on them.
Thousands of these infinitesimal specks are devoured before they hatch out by predaceous fish; thousands more of the young fry are swallowed alive during their helpless infancy by the enemies of their species.
In one section of the order, however, the Adephaga comprising the predaceous terrestrial and aquatic beetles, the larval foot has, like that of the adult, two claws.
The dragon-fly larva has the same predaceous mode of life as its parent, but it is sluggish in habit, lurking for its prey at the bottom of the pond, among the mud or vegetation, which it resembles in colour.
The fish-lizards, described in our last chapter, were not the only predaceous monsters that haunted the seas of the great Mesozoic age, or era.
These great marine predaceous reptiles literally swarmed in the seas of the Lias period, and no doubt devoured immense shoals of the fishes of those times, whose numbers were thus to some extent kept down.
The common asparagus beetle has very efficient checks in the shape of predaceous insects, which prey upon its larvae and assist in preventing its undue increase.
One of the most active of these predaceousinsects is the spotted ladybird (Megilla maculata DeG.
This latter is so pugnacious that most predaceous birds avoid the tree in which its nest is situated.
Some predaceous creature, possibly a cat or a mongoose, had seized the sitting bulbul in the night.
When a sunbird does make a mistake and place its nest in an unsuitable place, the predaceous crows devour the young ones, as they did recently in the case of a nest built in the middle of an ingadulsis hedge in my compound at Fyzabad.
Apparently a cat, a mongoose, or other predaceous creature had attempted to capture the parent bird during the night when it was sitting on the nest.
The selected islands are almost invariably sufficiently far from the river bank to prevent jackals and other predaceous creatures wading across to them.
One might imagine the shock that a bird, or other predaceous enemy, would experience when looking upon this grinning mask.
It must shelter itself from birds, spiders, predaceous beetles, and many other enemies.
They are predaceous in their habits, feeding upon other insects.
The larvæ are most voracious creatures, and are undoubtedly the most predaceous of insects.
It is a mostpredaceous insect, and can bite severely.
All the insects of this family arepredaceous in their habits, and are exceedingly numerous in tropical climates.
Thus these animals fire a volley as it were at their annoyers, the scent of which is probably sufficient to discomfit any ichneumons, flies, or predaceous beetles that may be desirous of attacking them.
The predaceous tribes, particularly the numerous and prowling ground-beetles (Eutrechina), often thus ascend the plants and trees after their prey.
He contrasts them with the worldly passions as we find these embodied in the predaceous military character, altogether to the advantage of the latter.
Predaceous diving beetles, which are a nuisance in fish hatcheries, are eaten by them.
Another numerous class kill their prey outright, either devouring its solid parts, as the predaceous and rove-beetles, &c.
Some insects, not of a predaceous description, are gifted with a similar power of abstinence.
Presently the mother wren heard its calls and paid it a visit; but instead of feeding it, she seemed very anxious to drive it away, knowing, no doubt, that there were predaceous enemies in the neighborhood.
Furthermore, predaceous larvae require a long period for attaining their full size, for they can only obtain their prey at rare intervals and by the expenditure of considerable energy.
The destruction of northern birds is not only caused by man, but also by various predaceous mammals and birds.
The entomology here resembled that of Europe, more than I had expected in a tropical country, where predaceous beetles, at least Carabideae and Staphylinideae, are generally considered rare.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "predaceous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
