Sentence examples for feed on dying from inspiring English sources
And the bacteria that feed on dying phytoplankton use oxygen, leaving less for fish and crabs.Fortunately, few species filter nitrogen from the water as effectively as oysters as Bill Goldsboro, a senior scientist with an environmental advocacy group called the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, explains, "The oyster is pretty particular about what it eats, but it's not particular about what it filters".
Birds such as kingfishers, sandpipers and dippers also suffer, as the insects and small fish they feed on die out.
Dr. Short said the woodpeckers are feeding on dying young pines, which provide less food than old trees, on long-dead trees that they tear open in search of beetles and even on old stumps.
In the situations where producers kill the cover crops or grassy weed areas with herbicide or tillage, the black cutworm larvae continue to feed on the dying plants for 1-2 weeks.
When these weeds are killed by tillage or herbicide, the larvae continue to feed on the dying tissue until the planted corn emerges and then moves over to the corn.
The mosquitoes feeding on them died.
In lab tests, more than 50% of peacocks allowed just three days feeding on flowers died during hibernation, whereas 90% of those able to feed for seven to 15 days survived.
On the contrary, 14 of the 15 A. micaceanus larvae feeding on L10-T1-10 died at 2 to 3 days after infestation.
John V. Dennis, a naturalist who wrote an influential book on feeding birds, died on Dec. 1 at his home in Princess Anne, Md .He was 86.
The noddies would follow, and after a while the trees that feed on them might die, too.
