- a variation of predacious.
predaceous
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Birds and predaceous insects often manage small populations but there may be times you decide to intercede.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 6, 2024
In nature it is kept in check by various predators such as ladybugs, a gall midge, predaceous mites and several pirate bugs, all of them extremely sensitive to insecticides.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
Just because you’ve called something a spider once doesn’t mean that the next time you have to call it an arachnid or a predaceous eight-legged creepy-crawly.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
Many predaceous ground beetles of the family Carabidae would be found under rocks and clods and on the ground.
From Food of the Crow, Corvus brachyrhynchos Brehm, in South-central Kansas by Dwight Platt
The larva and the active pupa or nymph are aquatic and are predaceous, as is also the adult.
From Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects by C. V. Riley
