Sentence examples for mosquito fish from inspiring English sources

Then he tips in a few dozen mosquito fish (Gambusia affinis), which begin happily munching larvae.

"Consider stocking ornamental ponds with predacious minnows," he said, referring to inch-and-a-half-long minnows also known as mosquito fish.

Live-bearers are usually omnivorous; some, such as the mosquito fish, feed heavily on mosquito larvae and are used to control these pests.

The pond is algae-free and stocked with gambusia, the local minnows that are mosquito predators — hence their common name, mosquito fish.

The hardy mosquito fish, which has a prodigious appetite for mosquito larvae, is usually light grayish but may be spotted or blotched with black.

"One thing to consider might be to stock the pond with mosquito fish," Dr. Potter said, referring to what are called predacious minnows, about an inch to an inch and a half long, that dine quite happily on mosquito larvae.

The mosquito fishes exposed to sperm whales' liver extracts showed an abnormal swimming pattern in the first hours when compared to the animals exposed to porcine livers.

Biological effects due to any of the chemical substances found during toxicological investigations on sperm whales were investigated using 80 mosquito fishes (Gambusia affinis) divided into four experimental groups of 20 animals each: two were exposed to liquid liver extracts obtained from animals no.

Gambusia sexradiata from the Río Teapa, and Grijalva mosquitofish (Heterophallus milleri) from the Río Oxolotán (both Tabasco, México) were included as representatives of mosquito fishes.

MITEs have been described in a wide variety of organisms, including plants and animals such as Drosophila, mosquitoes, fish, and humans (Deprá et al. 2012; Fattash et al. 2013).

In one classic example, Leberg [ 21] found that populations of mosquito-fish founded with siblings grew more slowly than those founded by unrelated individuals.