Sentence examples for feed readily from inspiring English sources

There is his wife, Rebekka, who as a girl of 16 was sent abroad to America by her father, who, happy to have one less mouth to feed, readily accepted Jacob's offer of " 'reimbursement' for clothing, expenses and a few supplies" in exchange for a "healthy, chaste wife willing to travel abroad".

Both the larvae and adults are predacious and feed readily on juicy maggots and fly puparia (Byrd and Castner 2009).

Our nutcrackers normally feed readily in the presence of caretakers, and even jump on food cups and begin to feed before the cups are fully snapped into place on the cage.

Southern California environments lack the contiguous canopy found in the eastern deciduous forest, and Culex mosquitoes feed readily at ground level (41, 42).

Ae. aegypti mostly only feed on humans, but Ae. albopictus take blood from a variety of animal species even though both species feed readily on humans.

The potential effects of Pomacea diffusa in natural habitats are unknown, but a conflicting study reports that, in addition to macrophytes, it will feed readily on animal carcasses, live worms, and the eggs of planorbid snails [ 39].

Cx. p. pipiens is mainly ornithophilic (39), but Cx. p. quinquefasciatus feeds readily on mammals (25, 40), potentially transferring WNV from birds to humans and horses.

5, 6 It is active year round 7 and feeds readily on humans and other animals during the day, particularly around dusk and dawn.

Mothers are given information on common health problems of preterm infants as well as general information about infant care and feeding readily available to all mothers of infants.

We tested Ae. vexans because it feeds readily on mammals (29) and was found to be naturally infected with WNV during the 1999 New York outbreak (11, 12).

To the Editor: The cat flea (Ctenocephalides felis felis Bouché, 1935) is a ubiquitous parasite of domestic and wild animals that also feeds readily on people.