Many familiar groups, the rodents and the insects for example, are clades ; others, like the lizards and the monkeys, are not.

Pigs, like the above insects, will eat the feces of herbivores that leave a significant amount of semi-digested matter, including their own.

Others have hard exoskeletons, outer shells like those of insects and crustaceans.

Generally, invertebrates like camel spiders and even earthworms, but mainly sizeable insects such as beetles, orthopterans and winged termites are eaten with delight whenever the birds happen across them.

His study of plants led him to conclude that plants had tubules similar to those he saw in insects like the silk worm ( using his microscope, he probably saw the stomata, through which plants exchange carbon dioxide with oxygen ).

The show featured acts reviving traditional sideshow stunts and carrying some of them to extremes, and " fringe " artists ( often exhibiting extreme body modification ) performing bizarre or masochistic acts like eating insects, lifting weights by means of hooks inserted in their body piercings, or stapling currency to their forehead.

Most of the insects taste fairly bland when deep-fried, somewhat like popcorn and prawns.

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Diseases like malaria, schistosomiasis, river blindness, and elephantiasis are not zoonotic, even though they may be transmitted by insects or use intermediate hosts vectors, because they depend on the human host for part of their life-cycle.

All invertebrates with well developed brains, like insects, spiders and squids have a ventral rather than dorsal system of ganglions, with a split brain stem running on each side of the mouth / gut.

The simplest procedure is that followed by many species of Anopheles: like many other gracile species of aquatic insects, females just fly over the water, bobbing up and down to the water surface and dropping eggs more or less singly.

However, like certain other insects that survive on dilute, purely liquid diets, notably many of the Homoptera, many adult mosquitoes must excrete unwanted aqueous fractions even as they feed.

Television critic James Poniewozik has disagreed with this assessment, writing, " for all the talk about ' humiliation TV ,' what's striking about most reality shows is how good humored and resilient most of the participants are: the American Idol rejectees stubbornly convinced of their own talent, the Fear Factor players walking away from vats of insects like Olympic champions.

However, they will also opportunistically eat rodents, reptiles, amphibians, insects, birds ( especially ground-based types like the Vulturine Guineafowl ), fish and sometimes smaller predators ( such as foxes, jackals, martens and smaller felid species ).

Grazers / browsers tend to be either very large herbivores that need to consume a lot of food in order to maintain their metabolism, or herbivores that have a very short amount of time to eat as much as possible before reproducing, like many generalist insects.

Although apomixis may occur in some cultivars, research has shown that rambutan, like lychee, is dependent upon insects for pollination.

These insects are very much like the familiar advanced sucking lice, except they do not stay on their host permanently.

Parasitoid wasps tend to be effective for their selected prey, but like all small insects can be less effective outdoors because the wind controls their movement.

As noted above, many species of Centaurea are popular food for insects that may otherwise attack crops ; particular in small-scale farming it is often advisable to allow non-invasive species ( like Cornflower, C. cyanus, in Europe ) to grow around fields.

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Other common creatures associated with him include sun-bathing animals such as snakes, or water-loving animals like lizards and insects.

Since the animals did not have mineralized armor nor even tough organic exoskeletons like those of insects, their bodies were flattened as they were buried and fossilized, and smaller or internal features appear as markings within the outlines of the fossils.

Not included are ectoparasites like insects, mites, vertebrate, or other pests that affect plant health by consumption of plant tissues.

Many plants have evolved substances, like polygodial, which prevent insects from eating, but do not kill them directly.

This persisted through the 1950s, with the fears of nuclear weapons and radiation leading to giant insects of monster movies, as well as cautionary tales like The Day the Earth Stood Still, and into the 1960s, with the likes of The Hulk.

Unlike its relatives, the aardwolf does not hunt large animals ; instead it eats insects, mainly termites-one aardwolf can eat about 200, 000 termites during a single night by using its long, sticky tongue to capture them.

Of insects Africa has many thousand different kinds ; of these the locust is the proverbial scourge of the continent, and the ravages of the termites are almost incredible.

Carotenes are also found in some species of termites, where they apparently have been picked up from the diet of the insects.

An example of natural selection through ecosystem engineering occurs in the nests of social insects, including ants, bees, wasps, and termites.

Preservatives may be added to wood to prevent the growth of fungi as well as to repel insects and termites.

They are built primarily by birds, but also by mammals ( e. g. squirrels ), fish, insects ( e. g. wasps, termites and honey bees ) and reptiles ( e. g. snakes and turtles ).

In most grassland ecosystems, natural damage from fire, insects that feed on decaying matter, termites, grazing mammals, and the physical movement of animals through the grass are the primary agents of breakdown and nutrient cycling, while bacteria and fungi play the main roles in further decomposition.

Most abundant among their animal foods are insects, including beetles, grasshoppers, locusts, crickets, dragonflies, flies, mantids, termites, cockroaches, moths and butterflies.

It is most highly developed in social insects such as ants, termites, wasps and bees.

Terpenes ( ) are a large and diverse class of organic compounds, produced by a variety of plants, particularly conifers, though also by some insects such as termites or swallowtail butterflies, which emit terpenes from their osmeteria.

Note the greatly reduced molars and carnassials, redundant in a large, insectivorous animal living on soft insects such as termites.

Swarming insects, such as locusts or termites, are particularly targeted.

Prey items include a range of insects, particularly beetles, termites and ants, as well as millipedes, centipedes, earthworms and gastropods.

# the creation of structures by social animals, such as social insects ( bees, ants, termites ), and many mammals

Anteaters may originally have been adapted to arboreal life and the evolution of the giant anteater may have been aided by the expansion of open habitats such as savanna in South America and the availability of insects living in colonies there, such as termites, that provided a larger feeding target.

The only two other groups of insects to use fungus-based agriculture are ambrosia beetles and termites.

Nac Mac Feegles possess a eusocial culture similar to bees, termites and other social insects.

A few species, notably insects of the orders Hymenoptera ( ants, bees and wasps ) and Isoptera ( termites ) show an extreme form of sociality, involving highly organized societies, with individual organisms specialized for distinct roles.

Mulch made with wood can contain or feed termites, so care must be taken about not placing mulch too close to houses or building that can be damaged by those insects.

Food consists mainly of grain, grass seeds, fallen berries, shoots, tubers, termites, ants and insects.

The members of this order are small insects, or less in length, that resemble termites in appearance and in their gregarious behavior.

They are mainly fruit eating but will take sometimes insects, especially winged termites.

It eats primarily invertebrates and specifically insects, including termites.

It is a good climber and usually eats termites, small insects, spiders and other arthropods.