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
Thousands of large and small predaceous birds followed the flames, and fell now and then in them.
From The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier by Various
About eight eggs are laid, and the cock grouse takes his stand upon the "knowe" to guard the nest from predaceous carrion and hooded crows.
From The Confessions of a Poacher by Anonymous
