"eat" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Many birds nest and sleep in hedges and eat insect pests.
- The reason for snakes symbolizing worth was because they ate rats and other pests.
- Sparrows can be beneficial to humans as well, especially by eating insect pests.
- Bats are important in eating insect pests, reducing the need for pesticides.
- This could happen should genetically altered plants become weeds, or should insects designed to eat certain pests develop a taste for others.
- Though a few species of ground beetles do eat plants, a vast majority eat soft-bodied pests like cutworms and slugs.
- The value of bats that eat pests on cotton crops in Texas has been valued at $741,000 (£452,000) annually by researchers.
- It is also attractive to hoverflies (family Syrphidae), which are useful as biological pest control agents because they eat aphids and other pests.
- A single bat can eat 500 to 1,000 mosquitoes per night as well as other insect pests.
- Some species of ants are used for pest control (they eat pests that destroy food for humans).
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