Sentence examples for mainly feed on from inspiring English sources

Cereal aphids are oligophagous i.e. they mainly feed on cereals.

Rufous-necked Wood-Rail appears to mainly feed on crabs, and to be most active early and late in the day; it is also vocal at night.

"Kestrels mainly feed on voles and other small mammals," she says, "and if there aren't many of those around their numbers will decline".

Conversely, aphidophagous species, which mainly feed on crop aphids, preferentially overwinter within the fields and are less influenced by semi-natural features.

This pattern probably results from Petrel species feeding on mesopelagic fish and squid that migrate close to the sea surface at night, whereas shearwater species mainly feed on epipelagic diurnal prey.

The latter mainly feed on the whole body of smaller fish.

In a Finnish study, only one-tenth of the wintering goldcrest population, which mainly fed on spiders, survived to spring.

The Roadside Hawk feeds on a variety of small prey including reptiles and small mammals, but mainly feeds on insects.

The Argentine ant is omnivorous, although it mainly feeds on the honeydew produced by smaller insects like aphids.

We focused on Carollia castanea (Phyllostomidae), a small frugivorous bat that mainly feeds on pepper plants.

I. scapularis mainly feeds on white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) and white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus), especially in areas of tall grass, and is most active in summer.