In their school room Beatrix and Bertram kept a variety of small pets, mice, rabbits, a hedgehog, some bats along with collections of butterflies and other insects which they drew and studied.

It primarily eats zooplankton, insects, insect larvae, and phytoplankton, although it can eat a variety of other foods, such as worms and small crustaceans, if its preferred sources are not readily available.

Fungi communicate with their own and related species as well as with nonfungal organisms in a great variety of symbiotic interactions, especially with bacteria, unicellular eukaryotes, plants and insects through semiochemicals of biotic origin.

Crete has an unusual variety of insects.

The figs are of a mutant variety that cannot be pollinated by insects, and therefore the trees can only reproduce from cuttings.

Saaremaa has a wide variety of rare wildlife species-ranging from insects to seals.

It is also home to a variety of animals including koalas, birds, rabbits, kangaroos and lots of small insects and bugs.

Ducks exploit a variety of food sources such as grasses, aquatic plants, fish, insects, small amphibians, worms, and small molluscs.

In the wild, gliders live off gum and sap ( typically from the eucalyptus ), acacia trees, nectar and pollen, manna and honeydew and a wide variety of insects and arachnids.

The fauna of Australia consists of a huge variety of animals ; some 83 % of mammals, 89 % of reptiles, 90 % of fish and insects and 93 % of amphibians that inhabit the continent are endemic to Australia.

The area is extremely humid, and is home to hundreds of bird species and thousands of insects, including a wide variety of butterflies.

Red-eared sliders are omnivores and eat a variety of animal and plant materials in the wild including, but not limited to, fish, crayfish, carrion, tadpoles, snails, crickets, mealworms, wax worms, aquatic insects and numerous aquatic plant species.

Their long legs allow them to take strides of up to They are opportunistically nomadic and may travel long distances to find food ; they feed on a variety of plants and insects, but have been known to go for weeks without food.

Scientists used or attempted to use a wide variety of insects in their biowar plans, including fleas, ticks, ants, lice and mosquitoes — especially mosquitoes that carried the yellow fever virus.

By 1952, the U. S. had dropped insects carrying a wide variety of diseases over China and North Korea, including plague, anthrax, encephalitis, cholera, dysentery, neurotropic viruses, and plant and livestock pathogens.

Brolga are omnivorous and eat a variety of wetland plants, insects, and amphibians.

A variety of different molluscs, crustaceans, insects, fish and birds call the riparian zone their home with a variety of life living near on in the creeks of the Royal National Park.

The great variety of insects is a result of the varied habitats and relatively high temperatures throughout the year.

Various animals are native to central-western New Jersey, including red fox ( vulpes vulpes ), black bear, groundhogs, wild turkeys, deer, squirrels, chipmunks, a variety of birds, and a plethora of insects and vegetation.

Because of the variety of wild plants that are found, the way is an important area for insects, birds and small mammals.

Gallinaceous birds feed on a variety of plant and animal material, which may include fruits, seeds, leaves, shoots, flowers, tubers, roots, insects, snails, worms, lizards, snakes, small rodents, and eggs.

Established in 1883, Black Flag makes a variety of products designed for killing and controlling insects including ants, roaches, spiders, fleas, flies, yellowjackets, wasps, hornets, and scorpions.

In general, shrews are terrestrial creatures that forage for seeds, insects, nuts, worms and a variety of other foods in leaf litter and dense vegetation, but some specialise in climbing trees, living underground, living under snow or even hunting in water.

In this respect experience is broader and full of a richer variety of potential meanings than the mind of man or any of his arts or culture are capable of making clear and distinct.

A variety of data are assembled to bear upon such alleged changes as diminished puritan morality, work-success ethic, individualism, achievement, lessened emphasis on future-time orientation in favor of sociability, moral relativism, consideration and tolerance, conformity, hedonistic present-time orientation.

There are many possibilities, including poor circulation, a variety of neurological conditions, and functional disorders.

So be it -- then we must embark on a crash program for 200-megaton bombs of the common or hydrogen variety, and neutron bombs, which do not exist but are said to be the coming thing.

With the whole camp exposed to view we could see the variety of canvas shelters in which Americans are camping now.

These are few and seemingly disjointed data, but they illustrate the important fact that fundamental alterations in conditioned reactions occur in a variety of states in which the hypothalamic balance has been altered by physiological experimentation, pharmacological action, or clinical processes.

While there are many different possibilities for the timing of casework intervention, the experiments recently reported from a variety of traditional settings all point up the importance of an immediate response to the client's initial need for help.

Here a variety of meanings and emotions are concentrated, or reduced, in their communicative expression, to some comparatively simple-seeming verbal or nonverbal statement.

Even beginning students in linguistics are made familiar with an appreciable variety of consonant systems, both in their general outlines and in many specific details.

On the whole they maintain much the same high standard, but they are much more difficult to discuss in detail because of their wider variety of subject matter.

There are a great number and variety of private commercial schools, trade schools and technical schools.

In later collages of both masters, a variety of extraneous materials are used, sometimes in the same work, and almost always in conjunction with every other eye-deceiving and eye-undeceiving device they can think of.

The downtown store continues to offer the great inducement of variety, both within its gates and across the street, where other department stores are immediately convenient for the shopper who wants to see what is available before making up her mind.

High nutritional value, variety, palatability, and appetizing appearance are important for reasons of morale.

`` However, evidence that the Axis powers are making significant preparations indicative of such an intention is being reported with increasing frequency from a variety of sources.

In the parapsychology foundation's long-range experiment, readings are made by a variety of sensitives for a large number of cooperating sitters, trying to throw light on this question of the significance of mediumistic statements.

A variety of techniques are used with multiple factor ANOVA to reduce

A wide variety of prizes are awarded to architects to acknowledge superior buildings, structures and professional careers.

Extensive miniature woods of heaths are found in almost endless variety and covered throughout the greater part of the year with innumerable blossoms in which red is very prevalent.

The first major application was the relative version of Serre's theorem showing that the cohomology of a coherent sheaf on a complete variety is finite dimensional ; Grothendieck's theorem shows that the higher direct images of coherent sheaves under a proper map are coherent ; this reduces to Serre's theorem over a one-point space.

Argentines enjoy a wide variety of non-alcoholic infusions ( although now and then both " families " are mixed ; the yerbiao for example, is mate mixed with caña or gin ).

The variety of sandwiches are nearly infinite.

Stand-alone, file based, multi-track recorders from Sound Devices, This of course results in a reduction in audio quality, but a variety of techniques are used, mainly by exploiting psychoacoustics, to remove the data that has least effect on perceived quality.

Alkaloids are produced by a large variety of organisms, including bacteria, fungi, plants, and animals, and are part of the group of natural products ( also called secondary metabolites ).