insectivore
Removing the vegetation alters insect habitats and so affects insectivorous creatures.
They have larger brains relative to their body size than their insectivorous relatives.
The eyes of insectivorous bats have become very small.

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insectivorous
Comparative foraging success of insectivorous birds in tropical and temperate forest: ecological implications.
Comparative foraging success of insectivorous birds in tropical and temperate forests: ecological implications.
We propose that, in light of these findings, caterpillars may be important food items for other gleaning insectivorous bats as well.
Evaluation of an arthropod sampling technique for measuring food availability for forest insectivorous birds.
Insectivorous birds increase growth of white oak through consumption of leaf-chewing insects.
In two of the three treatments that included drongo vocalizations, exemplars without alarm calls were more attractive to insectivorous birds than exemplars with alarm calls.
Although insectivorous bats are particularly abundant and diverse in the tropics, their impact on herbivorous insects is little understood.
The fact that lizard intake varies similarly to arthropod availability, suggests that lizards are not just an alternate food type to these primarily insectivorous birds.
In contrast, specialized insectivorous birds that join mixed-flocks show a significant association with primary forest.
The intensive harp-trapping protocol suggests that this is primarily due to the great numbers and diversity of insectivorous species in the forest interior.
We calculated regressions for the 12 species above and again for all 17 insectivorous species.
The arthropods collected from the vegetation, soil, and detritus in the quadrat samples were identified to morphospecies and categorized as 'insectivorous', 'granivorous', 'both' or 'other'.
Assessing the potential impact of gleaning insectivorous bats on herbivorous insects requires a detailed dietary analysis of the bats and feeding rates.
Although rather well protected during the day, these insects suffer increased exposure to predation by gleaning insectivorous bats at night.
Latitudinal migrants were seen attending swarms in forest fragments at higher rates, emphasizing the potential importance of these habitats to some migrant insectivorous birds.
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