Sentence examples for some feed on from inspiring English sources
Some feed on dead organic matter.
Some feed on the host's tissue directly, or hijack its molecular machinery to reproduce.
Most live in and eat decaying plant matter, although some feed on dead insects and the tender parts of living plants.
Some feed on tissues of plant stems or seeds, others on insects living within those same plant materials, and still others a little more omnivorous, feeding on both.
Many larvae bore into solid wood of living or dead trees and stumps; some feed on or in roots or in stems of semiwoody plants; and others feed in seeds, pods, grain, meal, fruits, nuts, and other parts of plants; some are hidden inside the plants.
Some feed on filaments of cyanobacteria (blue-green algae)—which are composed of long chains of individual cells by taking in the entire filament at any point on the cell surface and rolling it up into a coil inside a digestive vacuole.
To hover over the delicate flowers that provide the nectar they feed on, some small hummingbirds beat their wings up to 80 times a second.
Some fed on hard-shelled animals whereas the others ate fish, cephalopods, and vertebrates, including marine reptiles.
The earwigs (Dermaptera) are familiar insects, often unwelcomed, mainly due to their nocturnal habit, some feeding on decaying matters, emitting foul smell, and an unfounded myth that earwigs would crawl into peoples' ears and penetrate into their brains during sleep.
Another example (Blanchard et al. 2009) comes from creation of a model of an ecosystem containing organisms with a variety of feeding characteristics, some feeding according to size (the predators) and some feeding on shared unstructured resources largely according to taxonomy (the detritivores).
