Sentence examples similar to beetle hunting from inspiring English sources

Darwin (who gained fame first as the world's foremost barnacle taxonomist) might have expected any dinner-party conversation to turn taxonomic, after an afternoon of beetle-hunting or wildflower study.

Many other invertebrate predators, including several other arachnid groups, carabid, cincidelid and staphylinid beetles, hunt prey using the same two strategies as those used by spiders.

One might expect bee-hunting Cerceris to exhibit some kind of prey preservation behavior similar to the Philanthini, and thus also to possess larger and more complex PPGs than their beetle-hunting congeners.

The animal also hunts beetles and earthworms, providing they are small enough to fit in a 5-mm gap.

Shrikes are fascinating mini-predators, not much larger than blackbirds but hunting everything from lizards and beetles to other birds as big as greenfinches, and storing them in thorn-bush "larders", on the spikes of which their prey is impaled.

For example, the larva or pupae of a beetle genus of the Northern Kalahari Desert is used to create a slow-acting poison that can be quite useful when hunting.

We found that predatory ground beetles, spiders and some bat species (pipistrelles) group around streetlights, because they use the artificial illumination to gain an advantage while hunting their prey.

Ghost hunting.

Job Hunting.

Witch Hunting.

Hunting the inflatable dinosaur.