polyphagous in a sentence
Examples
- Caterpillars are polyphagous, feeding from May to June on a wide range of herbaceous plants, shrubs and trees,
- The larvae are polyphagous and have been recorded feeding on " Cecropia " and " Miconia " species.
- In its natural habitat it is rather polyphagous, feeding mainly on bacteria, plants and fungi, and reproduces during the summer.
- Beet leafhoppers are polyphagous generalists which means that they are able to feed on various different types of host ( biology ) plants.
- This tribe is a group of polyphagous moths that reside mostly in the tropical regions of Afro-Eurasia but also North America.
- The larvae are polyphagous and have been recorded feeding on various low-growing plants, including " Origanum " species.
- Most grasshoppers are polyphagous, eating vegetation from multiple plant sources, but some are omnivorous and also eat animal tissue and animal faeces.
- These'treehoppers'are polyphagous, feeding on plant juices, which they take by their specially built, piercing-sucking mouth parts.
- These insects are polyphagous, larvae and nymphs live on various wild herbaceous plants, while adults live on bushy plants and on broadleaf trees.
- Most other species'caterpillars are leaf feeders; the extremely polyphagous larvae of " Pyralis manihotalis " have been reared from bat guano.