predaceous
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Birds and predaceous insects often manage small populations but there may be times you decide to intercede.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 6, 2024
Just because you’ve called something a spider once doesn’t mean that the next time you have to call it an arachnid or a predaceous eight-legged creepy-crawly.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
In nature it is kept in check by various predators such as ladybugs, a gall midge, predaceous mites and several pirate bugs, all of them extremely sensitive to insecticides.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
Several families of bugs are predaceous in habit, attacking other insects—often members of their own order—and sucking their juices.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
The larva and the active pupa or nymph are aquatic and are predaceous, as is also the adult.
From Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects by C. V. Riley
