Sentence examples for feed on dead from inspiring English sources

Pike are also scavengers and will feed on dead fish.

Some feed on dead organic matter.

Woodlice feed on dead or decaying organic matter.

Both larva and adult feed on dead animals, especially insects, and sometimes on plants.

Dermestids feed on dead animal skins, dead insects, birds' nests, other animal nests, and accumulations of debris.

Adults may also feed on dead insects, and females may feed on their own eggs and on spermatophores.

Most species feed on dead-plant materials above and below the soil surface.

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.

In Peru and Chile it descends to the Pacific Coast, where it feeds on dead marine animals such as seals and fish.