Sentence examples for fed on dead from inspiring English sources
The weakened trees became vulnerable to a fungus and a tiny beetle that had in the past mostly fed on dead or dying aspen and had not posed a serious threat. 1 2 Next Page ».
Astrobiologist and lead author Mark Sephton of Imperial College London says the analyses show that the organism fed on dead wood.
Lepidoptera descend from a diurnal moth-like common ancestor that either fed on dead or living plants.
Rather, the surviving mammals and birds fed on insects, worms, and snails, which in turn fed on dead plant and animal matter.
It remains unclear whether Paleomyces was a decomposing organism, feeding on dead plant material, a parasite or a mycorrhizal symbiont.
saprophyte -- Organism which feeds on dead and decaying organisms, allowing the nutrients to be recycled into the ecosystem.
To do this she endowed the yeast with genes from a bacterium that feeds on dead poppy stalks.
Adults may also feed on dead insects, and females may feed on their own eggs and on spermatophores.
In Peru and Chile it descends to the Pacific Coast, where it feeds on dead marine animals such as seals and fish.
The fish live in mutually beneficial partnerships with larger client fish from whom they feed on dead skin and parasites.
