But he is also using them as a marketing tactic rather than a statement of principle, to shift focus from predacious systems to personal symbols.
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The agency has protected service members from predatory practices — returning $130 million to service members, veterans and their families harmed by illegal and predacious behavior by banks.
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There's too much, really: too much sea, with its miles of fish and plankton roiling the deeps; too much predacious elegance, watching cormorants plunging into the sea like a hail of knives, to pierce the bodies of those fish and feed.
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If 2017 began with women marching for their daughters and ended with a tidal wave of female rage directed at predacious men, perhaps 2018 should be the year women resolve to go after what we want and deserve — simply for us.
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If for some reason the kelp is removed or thinned, the predacious fish feed in the water column instead.
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Papuadytes desii is a species of predacious water beetle from the family Dytiscidae which is endemic to Papua New Guinea.
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Papuadytes fume is a species of predacious water beetle from the family Dytiscidae which is endemic to Papua New Guinea.
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Graphoderus perplexus, the predacious diving beetle, is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America and the Palearctic.
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A female predacious bird who has been wounded by an arrow through her chest. She rules the air and is the most popular god among women.
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NeophisisJin, Xingbao. 1990. In Jin, Xingbao, Kevan DKM & Yamasaki. A new genus, subgenus and species of small predacious orthopteroids from the Ryukyu Islands (Grylloptera: Tettigonioidea: Meconematidae). Proc. Japan. Soc. Syst. Zool. 42: 23.
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Adults are found from late May to late September. This species is found around waterways, ranging from small creeks to large rivers. The larvae are predacious filter feeders which restricts them to slower currents.
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Species of Placobdelloides lack a jaw and usually feed with a protrusible proboscis; they are predacious or sanguivorous, or both, on a variety of prey such as shrimps, waterfowl, fish, amphibians, turtles, crocodiles or mammals.
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2009 . The predacious Hister beetle will feed on soft-bodied insect eggs and larvae, Diptera in particular. Some species of Histeridae will even feed on other Histeridae. The majority of Histeridae species prefer dried, decaying habitats.
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For this reason, the dead body must be examined at different times of the day. After collecting the Hister beetles from a body, isolate them because they are predacious beetles and eat anything in their way.
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This needs to be noted when examining a dead body. They are predacious beetles and arrive when there is material to feed on, like other beetles or maggots. They do not actually feed on the carrion.Fuller, John.
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Histeridae is a large and diverse family. There are more than 410 genera and 4,800 described species in Histeridae worldwide, with more than 500 species in North America. The beetles range in size, shape and color. Many of the adults are predacious.
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Agabus klamathensis is a species of predacious diving beetle belonging to the family Dytiscidae. This species is found in springs, creeks, rivers, and pools in northern California and southwestern Oregon. Agabus klamathensis is named for Klamath County, Oregon, where the type specimen was collected.
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Agabus ambiguus is a species of predacious diving beetle belonging to the family Dytiscidae. This species occurs across the United States and Canada. It has been collected from depositional areas of springs, streams, and stream-fed ponds. Adults can be active in open water throughout winter.
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More significant characteristics of S. nudiseta are its large and predacious larvae which can easily consume C. rufiffacies. Spiracular buttons are present in the premature third instar. The anterior spiracles contain five to seven papillae each. The puparia are enclosed in a silky white substance for protection.
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Platambus apache is a species of predacious diving beetle belonging to the family Dytiscidae. This species is endemic to the Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona, USA. It has only been found at elevations of 7000 feet or above. This species is very similar to Platambus spinipes Sharp, and both species closely resembles tenebrionid beetles.
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Many species can be found in cryptic habitats such as galls, but can also be present in open surface environments. They can often be found in many agricultural crops. They can feed on plant material, but mostly feed on other small soft-bodied arthropods. Anthocorids are often predacious both as nymphs and adults.
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This particular species is predacious in both the larvae and adult stages of life. The larvae and adults have long, curved mandibles which are used for chewing. They feed on carcasses (from the hours after death to the advanced stages of decomposition), as well as on maggots that tend to be on dead animals.
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The biology of most species in the genus is poorly known. All life stages live under dead bark, where they apparently are predacious. Larvae also are dorso-ventrally compressed. Cucujus clavipes puniceus, which occurs in western North America, has been the subject of considerable research interest due to its ability to produce natural antifreeze compounds.
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Mononchoides fortidens, of the order Diplogasterida, is a free-living predacious nematode that feeds on both nematodes and bacteria . The predatory behavior of this nematode presents the opportunity to use it as a bio-control agent against other plant parasitic nematodes. It has been shown to have a preference for the second stage juveniles of Meloidogyne incognita.
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Walter de Gruyter, Berlin. Dorsal habitus of Pediacus subglaber Both larvae and adults live under bark, otherwise little is known of their habits. Larvae appear to be predacious D. B. Smith and M. K. Sears. 1982. Mandibular structure and feeding habits of three morphologically similar coleopterous larvae: Cucujus clavipes (Cucujidae), Dendroides canadensis (Pyrochroidae), and Pytho depressus (Salpingidae).
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Jean-Henri Fabre devotes a chapter to their predacious behavior in his More Hunting Wasps, comparing it with the genus Sphex. Some Tachytes species exhibit hilltopping behavior, in which males will perch near and territorially defend points of high elevation, such as the tops of hills and mountains. In other cases, males apparently guard burrows with developing females, waiting for them to emerge.
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Owen and Pemberton, p. 44. It has been speculated that devils may have become more predacious and presided over larger home ranges to fill in the vacancy left by the thylacine. Habitat disruption can expose dens where mothers raise their young. This increases mortality, as the mother leaves the disturbed den with her pups clinging to her back, making them more vulnerable.
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Stylopage is a polytypic genus of predacious fungus in the order Zoopagales, within the subphylum Zoopagomycotina. All known species of Stylopage subsist on various species of amoebae or nematodes by trapping their prey, typically using an adhesive substance that coats their vegetative hyphae, and absorbing nutrients through the projection of a haustorium. 17 extant Stylopage species have been described thus far.
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This family of beetles will occupy almost any kind of niche throughout the world. Hister beetles have proved useful during forensic investigations to help in time of death estimation. Also, certain species are used in the control of livestock pests that infest dung and to control houseflies. Because they are predacious and will even eat other Hister beetles, they must be isolated when collected.
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Handline (the simplest and cheapest gear) is manually operated by one person along the lake beaches or on riverbanks. Effective angling is done in calm waters early in the morning or evening or on dark nights. A set of handlines can also be operated as trolling gear. This is a prospective commercial fishery on Lake Victoria, Lake Kyoga, and Lake Albert, targeting predacious species like Nile perch and Hydrocynus.
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Some Histeridae species live in an integrated nest with ants and termites. Some species have been found to be fed by the ants, while others simply feed on leftover insect larvae that the ants do not want. In contrast, in their adult stage Psiloscelis will actually feed on adult ants. Because the Histeridae are predacious they can be utilized as control agents, but must be stored in isolation.
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Also of economic significance are manifestations of the species in slaughter- houses and poultry houses. Populations of P. terraenovae are maintained by refuse and the carcasses of dead animals. Due to their predacious nature, large numbers of this species can populate in the presence of other Dipteran species. Blowfly bred at these locations cause considerable local nuisance and may spread disease to both humans and animals by contaminating meat and foodstuffs.
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Handline (the simplest and cheapest gear) is manually operated by one person along the lake beaches or on the riverbanks. Effective angling is done in calm waters early in the morning or evening or on dark nights. A set of handlines can also be operated as a trolling gear. This is a prospective commercial fishery on Lake Victoria, Kyoga and Albert, targeting predacious species like Nile Perch and Hydrocynus.
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Jaws and Teeth: This species has three jaws, as is typical for a medicinal leech, which are monostichodont and bearing papillae. The papillae do not have any pores or fissures. Each jaw has 80 (min: 71 – max: 91) teeth; each tooth's average size is 33 µmKovalenko, M. V., & Utevsky, S. Y. (2015). Comparative structural analysis of jaws of selected blood-feeding and predacious arhynchobdellid leeches (Annelida: Clitellata: Hirudinida).
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Image by Harold Maxwell-Lefroy - Adephaga The Adephaga (from Greek ἀδηφάγος, adephagos, "gluttonous"), with more than 40,000 recorded species in 10 families, are a suborder of highly specialized beetles and the second-largest suborder of the order Coleoptera. Members of this suborder are adephagans, a term which notably include ground beetles, tiger beetles, predacious diving beetles, and whirligig beetles. The majority of the species belongs to the family of carabids, or ground beetles (Carabidae).
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From the second instar phase onwards, M. stabulans are predacious upon other larvae, and will eat other forensically important arthropods. Presence of the false stable fly larvae on buried bodies enables investigators to estimate the time of death. The antennae of the false stable fly can detect buried bodies. In these cases, the fly lays its eggs on top of the soil, and the hatching larvae will then burrow and invade the corpse.
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R. Soc. Lond. B. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 7 February 2003 vol. 270 no. 1512 313-321 Within the Adephaga there is confusion as well, with various rival proposals in contention; for example some workers regard the Gyrinidae as being closely related to such families as the Dytiscidae and various other predacious water beetle families, whereas other analyses suggest rather that the Gyrinidae are a sister group to the rest of the Adephaga.
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Workers would have relied on their vision to hunt for prey and help themselves navigate. William Morton Wheeler comments that P. longiceps were possibly an arboreal nesting species. This means the ant did not live in the soil and nested in trees instead. He assumed this due to its long legs, strong claws and long mandibles; Prionomyrmex was also assumed to be predacious, equipped with a well developed and powerful sting that was most likely used to kill prey.
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Because members of the family Histeridae can be found on carrion, they have proven to be important in certain forensic investigations. The predacious Hister beetles will feed on the various insects on the body, primarily Diptera. To estimate a person's time of death, forensic investigators must look at the insects on the body and determine time of colonization. If the Histeridae beetles are present, the investigator can assume that some of the other insects have been eaten by the Hister beetles.
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Another view of Synthesiomyia nudiseta Larvae prefer carrion as their primary source of food but have been found in feces, rotting vegetable materials, and garbage. These larvae only feed on the surface of their food instead of burrowing in like other larvae in the same order. It has also been found that the larvae of S. nudiseta are very large and predacious. They are known to devour the larvae of Chrysomya Rufifacies, commonly known as the hairy maggot blow fly.
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Crew of gyppo logging outfit, Tillamook County, Oregon, October 1941 The term "gyppo" is specific to the Pacific Northwest region of the United States and Canada. According to E.B. Mittelman, it "may be a derivation from the Greek word, signifying vulture,γύπας (gypas) or may simply be a derivation or corruption of the word gypsy." In either case, notes Mittelman, "it has something of the cunning or predacious in it." The term "gyppo" was commonly prepended to form nicknames among loggers, e.g.
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It is however willing to defend its host if a predacious starfish approaches, by biting at its tube feet. The keyhole limpet is also able to defend itself against attacks by starfish. On the approach of certain species of starfish, it swiftly extends and folds its mantle upwards to cover the shell, while another flap of mantle descends to cover the foot. At the same time, the inhalent syphon is extended through the aperture and covers the apex of the shell.
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Chrysomya rufifacies adults are usually the first to colonize a fresh corpse. In the southern U.S., this can happen within hours, sometimes minutes, of the host's death. This “hairy maggot blow fly” is the most common maggot found on corpses, and its consistent developmental time is extremely helpful when establishing a post mortem interval. However, C. rufifacies can have the opposite effect since its second and third instar larvae are known to be predacious, feeding on other maggots that might have colonized the body first.
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Members of the Bacteriovorax exhibit the same general morphological and life cycle features as described for the genus Bdellovibrio. In addition, members of this genus exhibit a biphasic life cycle, with the potential of displaying an actively predacious form as well as a PI (predatory independent), saprophytic form capable of growing on nutrient medium. Prey-dependent (wild-type) strains are comma-shaped rods, 0±5–1±4 µm in length, which demonstrate a predatory lifestyle in the presence of susceptible prey bacteria. The wild-type strains are motile by a single, polar flagellum.
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Snakeflies have been considered a viable option for biological control of agricultural pests. The main advantage is that they have few predators, and both adults and larvae are predacious. A disadvantage is that snakeflies have a long larval period, so their numbers increase only slowly, and it could take a long time to rid crops of pests; another issue is that they prey on a limited range of pest species. An unidentified North American species was introduced into Australia and New Zealand in the early twentieth century for this purpose, but failed to become established.
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The adverse effects on the insects of pollution may be either lethal or sub-lethal, in the latter case resulting in altered enzyme function, poor growth, changed behaviour or lack of reproductive success. As important parts of the food chain, pollution can cause knock-on effects to other organisms; a dearth of herbivorous nymphs can cause overgrowth of algae, and a scarcity of predacious nymphs can result in an over-abundance of their prey species. Fish that feed on mayfly nymphs that have bioaccumulated heavy metals are themselves at risk. Adult female mayflies find water by detecting the polarization of reflected light.
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In 1920, Shahu introduced a law banning the devadasi Pratha, the practice of offering girls to God, which essentially led to sexual exploitation of girls at the hands of the clergy. Shahu introduced a number of projects which enabled his subjects to sustain themselves in their chosen professions. The Shahu Chhatrapati Spinning and Weaving Mill, dedicated marketplaces and co-operative societies for farmers were established to free his subjects from predacious middlemen in trading. He made credits available to farmers looking to buy equipment to modernise agricultural practices, and even established the King Edward Agricultural Institute to instruct farmers in increasing crop yield and related techniques.
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Doube, B. M. (1987), Dung "Down Under", South African Journal of Science 83, p87 In addition to dung beetles, predacious beetles of the Histerid family, which are less sensitive to changes in soil moisture, were introduced to Australia as another means of controlling fly populations during periods of relative inactivity by dung beetles.Bornemissza, G. F. (1968), Studies on the histerid beetle Pachylister chinensis in Fiji, and its possible value in the control of buffalo-fly in Australia, Australian Journal of Zoology 16:673-688 However, these beetles were found to make little difference to the abundance of flies, so their introduction was discontinued in 1971. ;Worm control : In experiments in Pretoria, dung beetles were shown to be effective at controlling infective worm populations breeding in dung. The activity of a complex of at least 20 species of coprid in cattle and sheep dung produced an average reduction of 85% of worms.
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