What's the difference between entomophagous and insect?
Entomophagous
Definition:
(a.) Feeding on insects; insectivorous.
Example Sentences:
(1) The activities of gamma-cystathionase and cystathionine beta-synthase were investigated in a range of gastrointestinal, free-living and entomophagous nematodes.
(2) For the second time, the authors have found a new entomophagous nematode parasitic in Syrphidae.
(3) Under pasture conditions trombiculid mites, that initially were predators-entomophages with bite-sucking mouth parts, pass easily to parasitism on vertebrate animals and become primary lymphophages.
(4) None of the 15 strains of entomophagous nematodes, genera Steinernema and Heterorhabditis, experimentally put in contact with engorged larvae and nymphs were able to parasitize them.
(5) With the exception of the effects of cypermethrin on linyphiids and demeton-S-methyl on empids, both of the treatments had only minor, short-lived effects on these entomophages.
(6) This fungus is an entomophagous zygomycete which grows as a rod-shaped fission yeast containing 2 to 12, mostly 3 to 4, nuclei per cell.
(7) An entomophagous wasp (Hunterellus hookeri Howard) parasitizes about a third of the host-seeking nymphal Ixodes dammini Spielman et al.
(8) It’s that the idea of an insect is upsetting to people.” Rozin, who is known as “the father of disgust in psychology”, has come to the conference in Ede to present his work on consumer attitudes toward insects, and he outlines the challenges that entomophagic entrepreneurs will face.
(9) Hunting for diffusely spread prey is characteristic of entomophages too.
(10) Study of nematocide effect of 48 species of entomophilic and entomophagous fungi from the class Fungi imperfecti against Panagrellus redivivus and Rhabditis oxycerca nematodes revealed a high frequency of fungi with nematocide effect.
(11) The definitive entomophagous lizard host, which, in the field, has no opportunity to ingest the eggs, is infested by eating insects.
(12) The major groups of entomophagous arthropods collected from the fields were Carabidae, Staphylinidae, Linyphiidae, Empididae, and Braconidae.
(13) L-alanine aminotransferase was demonstrated in a range of gastrointestinal, free-living and entomophagous nematodes.
Insect
Definition:
(n.) One of the Insecta; esp., one of the Hexapoda. See Insecta.
(n.) Any air-breathing arthropod, as a spider or scorpion.
(n.) Any small crustacean. In a wider sense, the word is often loosely applied to various small invertebrates.
(n.) Fig.: Any small, trivial, or contemptible person or thing.
(a.) Of or pertaining to an insect or insects.
(a.) Like an insect; small; mean; ephemeral.
Example Sentences:
(1) Employed method of observation gave quantitative information about the influence of odours on ratios of basic predeterminate activities, insect distribution pattern and their tendency to choose zones with an odour.
(2) Suspensions of isolated insect flight muscle thick filaments were embedded in layers of vitreous ice and visualized in the electron microscope under liquid nitrogen conditions.
(3) After treatment of larvae of instar 1 at preimago stages about 77% of the insects died.
(4) The presence of potential insect vectors and the occurrence of clinical signs are indications of active transmissions.
(5) Spectrophotometric tests for the presence of a lysozyme-like principle in the serum also revealed similar trends with a significant loss of enzyme activity in 2,4,5-T-treated insects.
(6) Radiation inactivation and simple target theory were employed to determine the molecular weight of an insect CNS alpha-bungarotoxin binding component in the presence and absence of a cross-linking reagent, dimethyl suberimate.
(7) Bacillus thuringiensis subspecies kurstaki (Btk) and subspecies berliner (Btb) both produce lepidopteran-specific larvicidal protoxins with different activities against the same insect species.
(8) Phyla as diverse as insects, birds, and mammals possess distinct HRAS and KRAS sequences, suggesting that these genes are essential to metazoa.
(9) Compounds identified as sex attractant pheromones in a number of phytophagous insects were found in a variety of host plants.
(10) casseliflavus from 43.5% of members of the 37 taxa of insects.
(11) This is the first demonstration of a 2-hydroxylated carotenoid in an insect.
(12) Among the most highly expressing transformed plants for each gene, the plants with the partially modified cryIA(b) gene had a 10-fold higher level of insect control protein and plants with the fully modified cryIA(b) had a 100-fold higher level of CryIA(b) protein compared with the wild-type gene.
(13) Expression of these two cDNAs in insect cells by recombinant baculovirus revealed that the alpha 1 subunit, after noncovalent association with the beta subunit, has the same potency as the native alpha subunit purified from the pituitary.
(14) We have examined the organization of the repeated and single copy DNA sequences in the genomes of two insects, the honeybee (Apis mellifera) and the housefly (Musca domestica).
(15) But pipeline opponents say that by moving beetles from the Nebraska sandhills and mowing miles of grass where the insects once lived, TransCanada has illegally begun construction on the project.
(16) The complete amino acid sequence of 147 residues was determined automatically for a major dimeric component (CTT VI) of the insect larva Chironomus thummi thummi (Diptera).
(17) Peptides B and C are isoforms of a 43-residue peptide which contains 6 cysteines and shows significant sequence homology to insect defensins, initially reported from dipteran insects.
(18) The results suggested that allergenic cross-reactivity between some fly species exists, and may extend to taxonomically unrelated insect species.
(19) The species studied were Triatoma infestans, Triatoma brasiliensis, Triatoma vitticeps, Triatoma pseudomaculata, Rhodnius prolixus and Panstrongylus megistus, and 34 to 348 insects were studied in each group (average, 190).
(20) There is evidence that they might predate on our native shrimps, on our insect larvae, possibly fish eggs.