实验结果表明，该方法能很好地通过虫食菜叶的几何特征识别害虫种类，为科学防治和害虫危害程度评价提供科学依据。
The results show that the method is good at recognizing the pest species by the geometric feature of eaten leaves by pests, and give a scientific evaluation for the leaf's harm degree.
刺冠海星是一种以珊瑚虫为食的珊瑚礁捕食者。
The crown of thorns starfish is a coral reef predator that preys on coral polyps.
自然选择偏爱那些最容易找到寄主并以之为食的寄生虫。
Natural selection favors the parasites that are best able to find and feed on hosts.
CIBC还在完善培育寄生虫的技术，这些寄生虫以“disapene scale”昆虫为食。
CIBC is also perfecting the technique for breeding parasites that prey on "disapene scale" insects.
这些无法归类的动物包括被称为奇虾的会游泳的大型食肉动物，以及叫做威瓦亚虫的软体动物，它们以岩屑和藻类为食。
These unassignable animals include a large swimming predator called Anomalocaris and a soft-bodied animal called Wiwaxia, which ate detritus or algae.
加拿大帝国商业银行成功地使用了一种原产于墨西哥的以种子为食的象鼻虫来控制讨厌的帕特农杂草，这种杂草已知会对印度和澳大利亚的农业和人类健康产生负面影响。
CIBC successfully used a seed-feeding weevil, native to Mexico, to control the obnoxious parthenium weed, known to exert devious influence on agriculture and human health in both India and Australia.
鸟以虫为食。鸟捉不到虫就会饿。早起的鸟儿定能得到食物，因此早起的鸟儿有虫吃。
Birds feed on worms. A bird will go hungry if it cannot catch worms. The bird that gets up early is sure to get some food, so the early bird catches the worm.
同样的道理，类似蛤和虫这样的滤食动物在大部分区域都埋在地下。
For the same reason, filter feeders, like clams and worms, burrow underground in most regions.
寄生虫是一种以其它生物为食的生物。
他表示自己只是个普通人，不过也是食虫学家，提倡我们把虫子作为食物。
Gracer is, he says, a normal guy who's also an entomophagist, an advocate for insects as food.
研究表明植物能感觉到饥饿的食叶虫的出现，也能够对此做出反应。
Research proved that plants sense — and react to — the presence of hungry, leaf-eating worms.
研究人员经分析各造访生物震动的频率、持续时间以及振幅发现，食虫椿象与蜘蛛的某些猎物的震动特点最为相似。
Then the researchers analyzed the frequency, duration and amplitude of each visitor's vibrations. And they found that assassin bug's vibes most closely matched some of those of prey.
在青少年以及处于怀孕初期阶段的妇女中食土现象最为普遍，因为这两者都极易受到寄生虫以及病原体的侵害。
Dirt is most commonly eaten by women in early stages of pregnancy and preadolescent children. Both are particularly at risk from parasites and pathogens.
但不利于地衣、苔藓、风信子及食虫茅膏菜等脆弱物种的生长。
They harm more delicate species like lichens, mosses, harebells and insect-eating sundew plants.
因此，食虫椿象学会了小心翼翼地振动蜘蛛网，以模仿小腿抽搐、精疲力尽因而毫无威胁的猎物。
So the bugs have learned to gently pluck the silk strands, to mimic only the unthreatening leg twitches of exhausted prey.
地下萤火虫幼虫会寄生于蠕虫和蛞蝓，使其麻木分解并以此为食。
Underground larvae feed on worms and slugs by injecting them with a numbing fluid.
介壳虫的蔓延会让一种该地区的本土物种感到高兴：热带火蚂蚁。这种蚂蚁喜食介壳虫含糖的排泄物。
The spread of scale insects would have delighted one of the region's native species: the tropical fire ant, which is fond of dining on the sugary excrement of scale insects.
这只三英寸长，有着一副宛如家里蟑螂一般的尊容的南亚大水虫，或者叫它田鳖，仅仅是食虫菜单上的许多道菜之一。
The giant water bug, or Lethocerus indicus, a three-inch-long South Asian insect that looks uncannily like a local cockroach, is just one of the items on the menu of this bug-eating bacchanal.
这个秋天，一个研究组宣布他们在马达加斯加的一个湖中发现了一种食虫植物。
Just this fall, a team of researchers announced that they had found a new species of carnivore lurking in one of Madagascar's lakes.
不过，当蜘蛛遇上澳大利亚食虫椿象，那情形就反转了。
大王具足虫是一种食腐生物，以死掉的鲸类、鱼类和虾类的尸体为食。
It is a scavenger that feeds on dead whales, fish and shrimp.
有些寄生虫和病原体直接以寄主的组织为食，或者劫持寄主的分子机构进行繁殖。
Some feed on the host's tissue directly, or hijack its molecular machinery to reproduce.
事实上，一些裸鳃类动物因吃了有毒海绵也带有了毒素，使得像这种鼻涕虫的生物它们自己也对掠食者会造成致命的毒害。
And indeed, some nudibranches store up toxins from their diet of poisonous sponges, making the slug-like creatures themselves deadly to predators.
日本人从古至今都善食水虫幼虫，而墨西哥人食用蝗虫。
The Japanese have enjoyed aquatic insect larvae since ancient times, and chapulines, otherwise known as grasshoppers, are eaten in Mexico.
MarianPeters是一位狂热的欧洲食虫者，她是荷兰Venik 昆虫饲养者协会的秘书，喜欢拿蚱蜢当点心，称其为“昆虫鱼子酱”。
One avid European convert is Marian Peters, secretary of the Dutch insect breeders association, Venik, who likes to snack on grasshoppers and refers to them as "the caviar of insects."
MarianPeters是一位狂热的欧洲食虫者，她是荷兰Venik 昆虫饲养者协会的秘书，喜欢拿蚱蜢当点心，称其为“昆虫鱼子酱”。
One avid European convert is Marian Peters, secretary of the Dutch insect breeders association, Venik, who likes to snack on grasshoppers and refers to them as "the caviar of insects.
维纳斯捕蝇海葵(Actinoscyphiasaginata)不仅长得很像众所周知的食虫植物，连行为都与食虫动物相似。
Not only does the Venus flytrap anemone (Actinoscyphia saginata) resemble the well-known carnivorous plant, but it also emulates the plant's behavior.
事实上，在世界上有1400种昆虫被食用，而且食虫已有上千年的历史。
In fact, at least 1, 400 species of insects are eaten around the world, and the practice dates back thousands of years.
这是首次在地中海地区发现Osedax(拉丁语意为“贪吃骨”，是骨虫的一种，以鲸鱼骸骨为食)，这次发现证明了Osedax在600万年前的大洋中十分普遍。
It is the first time the genus Osedax has been found in the Mediterranean, and suggests Osedax were widespread throughout the world's oceans 6 million years ago.
这是首次在地中海地区发现Osedax(拉丁语意为“贪吃骨”，是骨虫的一种，以鲸鱼骸骨为食)，这次发现证明了Osedax在600万年前的大洋中十分普遍。
It is the first time the genus Osedax has been found in the Mediterranean, and suggests Osedax were widespread throughout the world's oceans 6 million years ago.
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