filariasis
filariasis Group of tropical diseases caused by infection with a nematode worm, filaria. The parasites, which are transmitted by insects, infiltrate the lymph glands, causing swelling and impaired drainage. Drug treatment reduces the symptoms. See also
elephantiasis
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Gardeners should give thanks for insectivores
Newspaper article from: Yakima Herald-Republic; 8/28/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...The meaning is: using insects for food. And we need more insectivores in many gardens to aid in insect control. If the insects...been made of one of the best, prettiest and friendliest insectivores around. They have not been given the credit deserved but...
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A cause of mortality for aerial insectivores?(Short Communications)
Magazine article from: Wilson Bulletin; 6/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...spring (Weeks 1994). Eastern Phoebes are primarily aerial insectivores, but they also glean insects from a variety of substrates...needed to determine whether Eastern Phoebes and other aerial insectivores commonly mistake fly-fishing lures for food, and how frequently...
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Experimental removal of insectivores from rain forest canopy: direct and indirect effects.
Magazine article from: Ecology; 9/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...Spiller and Schoener quantified lizard impact on insect abundance by insect order. Moreover, no data address the effects of insectivores on their prey within a more trophically complex ecosystem as typified by the tropical rain forest canopy. The present study...
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Feast for insectivores.(LOCAL)
Newspaper article from: The Record (Kitchener, Ontario); 3/14/2009; 683 words
; Byline: Valerie Hill CAMBRIDGE -- Beetle juice flavoured with a honking big water bug, scorpion soup with little black spots (that aren't pepper), almond cookies meated-up with little red ant bits. This might sound like a Halloween horror feast, but the bug component actually adds considerable
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Correction: Cuba Enigmatic Insectivore
News Wire article from: AP Online; 9/25/2003; 175 words
; AP Online 09-25-2003 Dateline: HAVANA In a Sept. 24 story about the discovery of a rare animal in Cuba, The Associated Press misidentified a scientist at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. He is Douglas Long, not David Long. Copyright 2003, AP News All Rights Reserved
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Fruit in the diet of nestlings of the Puerto Rican tody, a tropical insectivore. (Short Communications)
Magazine article from: Wilson Bulletin; 3/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; Many tropical frugivorous birds supplement the diet of their nestlings with insects, particularly in the early stages of development (Lack 1968, Skutch 1969, Morton 1973). In some of these cases, the nestling diet is exclusively insects (e.g., Skutch 1944). Although some frugivorous birds feed
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Ronald McDonald feels the pricks of his conscience: McDonald's can't win -- it comes up with a universally loved product, and all it gets is lawsuits, vilification and dead insectivores in its ice cream tubs.
Magazine article from: Marketing Week; 9/12/2002; ; 700+ words
; Have you noticed how McDonald's has become the corporate equivalent of tobacco? Despite their millions of adherents, both are universally despised and held to blame for almost all known afflictions and calamities. Tobacco has been identified as the cause of everything from underweight infants to
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2007, Ecological Applications: Bird species and traits associated with logged and unlogged forest in Borneo.
Magazine article from: Borneo Research Bulletin; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...such as the terrestrial insectivore Argusianus argus and the...contrast, undergrowth insectivores such as Orthotomus atrogularis...hornbills, terrestrial insectivores, and canopy bark-gleaning insectivores while moderately affecting...
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Cute-as-a-bug hedgehogs pointedly search out insects for food
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 7/12/1999; ; 670 words
; ...Hedgehogs are insectivores. Insectivores are small mammals that prefer...Besides hedgehogs, other insectivores include moles, tenrecs...the mammals alive today, insectivores are the most primitive...win the award for cutest insectivore. Despite their spikes...
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BIRD ASSEMBLAGES OF PROTECTED AND EXPLOITED COASTAL WOODLANDS IN EAST-CENTRAL ARGENTINA.
Magazine article from: Wilson Bulletin; 9/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...avifaunas from a guild perspective, we found the insectivore guild and frugivore-insectivore guild differed substantially between protected...woodland, and the species richness of the insectivore guild was lower in the exploited woodland...
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insectivore
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
insectivore , term broadly given to...tenrec , and solenodon . Insectivores are small animals, ranging...radiations from a primitive insectivore stock. The tree-shrews...formerly classified as insectivores, but are now usually...
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Oligocene
Book article from: Animal Sciences
...followed rapidly by the appearance of insectivores . Now that whole colonies of foods...herbivores and carnivores to scavengers and insectivores. Only a few of these species survive...enormous, slow-paced vegetarians and insectivores. For example, glyptopons (armadillos...
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Erinaceoidea
Book article from: A Dictionary of Zoology
...hedgehogs) and Echinosoricinae (moon rats). Erinaceoidea are insectivores, in the more advanced of which (hedgehogs) the hairs of...The senses of sight and hearing are more acute than in many insectivores. The limbs have five digits (except in the genus Atelerix...
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Tenrecidae
Book article from: A Dictionary of Zoology
...suborder Lipotyphla , superfamily Soricoidea ) A family of insectivores in which a cloaca is present, and in which the cusps of...closely resembling true otters. Some are larger than most insectivores, one of the tenrecs attaining a length of 50 cm and P...
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Solenodontidae
Book article from: A Dictionary of Zoology
...A family of fairly large (about 30 cm long), nocturnal insectivores in which the hair is coarse and the tail is long and scaly...zalambdodont , a feature that distinguishes them from other insectivores but which they share with the Tenrecidae . There are two...
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