Sentence examples for looking for insects from inspiring English sources

A black cat crept about the kitchen, looking for insects or mice.

They climb like nuthatches, looking for insects, and are able to perch crosswise on branches.

The British weather can frustrate wildlife watchers, and this is especially so for those of us looking for insects.

Bee-eaters often spend long periods on the wing, gliding in circles while looking for insects, especially bees and wasps.

"The old fence posts attracted woodpeckers looking for insects, and those were perfect nest cavities for bluebirds," said Tim Mason, a biologist at the Dawes Arboretum, which set up a bluebird trail with 36 nest boxes in 1983.

Some empid flies (or dance flies), which cruise around just above ponds looking for insects trapped in the water surface, have enlarged facets arranged in a belt around the eye's equator the region that views the water surface.

After the play, which ends much more happily than Shakespeare's, the young audience members will look for insects in the garden.

Engage younger children with a mini-beast hunt, getting them to look for insects and bugs and then draw an annotated picture of them.

Food capture and consumption: The Plushcap looks for insects by probing and pushing its bill into the stems and leaf nodes of the bamboo and prying them open (Hilty et al. 1979, Remsen 1985, Ridgely and Tudor 1989, Ridgely and Greenfield 2001).

Suddenly, the elegant Gehrig also appears, and is seen picking through the Babe's hair the way a primate might groom a partner or look for insects in its fur.

I noticed on Waldorf play dates that Neal was doing the same stuff other kids at Waldorf do -- climb trees, build forts, look for insects and snakes, jump and run through puddles and play in the rain.