Sentence examples for adapted to feed from inspiring English sources

Widespread and robust, Bombus terrestris has adapted to feed from a variety of flowers (unlike the short-haired bumble, which has more specific needs).

The most rigorous methods are those that combine experimental approaches with information from natural settings for example, in showing that the beaks of different species of Galapagos finch are shaped differently because they are adapted to feed on seeds of different sizes.

The fish were adapted to feed Otohime commercial marine finfish pellet.

Each is adapted to feed on different types of waste, and their meals include leftover or spoiled food, manure and abattoir waste.

After all fish were successfully adapted to feed on the Otohime commercial pellet in about 30 days, each fish were transferred to a transparent 3 L acrylic aquarium with 1 L water and aeration supply.

Another invader, the benthic fish round goby (Neogobius melanostomus), is morphologically adapted to feed on dreissenids and likely affects dreissenid populations; however, the degree of this predatory effect is variable.

A variety of lepidopterans (moths and butterflies) are adapted to feeding on the leaves of boreal trees.

Longer term, the increase may also be explained by the way long-tailed tits and other smaller birds have adapted to feeding on seeds and peanuts at bird tables or from hanging feeders.

A prime example of convergence in conjunction with dietary specialization is seen in those mammals adapted to feeding on ants and termites, a specialization generally termed myrmecophagy ("ant eating").

All true fleas are adapted to feeding on warm-blooded vertebrates, Poinar said, and today 94percentt of the 2,300 known species attack mammals, while the remainder feed on birds.

Only the distal proboscis is adapted to feeding nectar from long-spurred flowers.