Their results indicate that all placental mammals arose from a small, furry, insect-eating animal.

BBC: Earliest placental mammal ancestor pinpointed

Within the next hour, tiny pewees and hefty puffbirds, insect-eating tyrants and egg-snatching toucans had paraded in front of my cabin, each newcomer more brightly feathered than the last.

WSJ: Bird Watching in Misiones Province, Argentina

The project would like to raise water levels across the old Great Fen area to bring back the reeds, grasslands and rare plants, such as insect-eating bladderwort, which are now confined to the Woodwalton and Holme reserves.

BBC: Wetland habitat set to grow

In the early 1970s, for example, the cassava mealybug, a pale, flat, plant-eating insect, was destroying the staple crop of 200 million Africans.

FORBES: Those Resourceful Bugs