Golden mantellas are insectivores, feeding on termites, fruit flies, and a range of other insects.

金色曼蛙是食虫物，它们的食物包括白蚁，果蝇以及其他昆虫。

Birds known as aerial insectivores are also at risk because the insects they eat are getting harder to find.

空中食虫的鸟也受到了威胁，因为它们食用的昆虫越来越稀少。

Some became insectivores, feeding on abundant tropical insects.

有些物变成了食虫物，以丰富的热带昆虫为食。

They evolved into smaller-bodied insectivores with delicate jaws, short limbs, and single claws.

它们进化成体型较小的食虫物，具有精致的下巴、短小的四肢和单爪。

If you eat insects you are an insectivore.

如果你吃昆虫，你就是食虫物。

Among mammals, most insectivores are small animals like hedgehogs or shrews.

在哺乳物中，大多数食虫物是像刺猬或鼩鼱这样的小物。

Rising populations of insect species attract hungry insectivores, like birds and reptiles, who entice larger carnivores and apex predators.

昆虫种群数量的增了饥饿的食虫物，如鸟类和爬行物，它们了更大的食肉物和顶级掠食者。

But the earliest members of the drepanosaur line started to adapt to a specific niche -- that of tree-climbing insectivores.

但是，钩龙类物最早的成员开始适应一个特定的生态位——树栖食虫物。

And they're principally insectivores, meat eaters, but they do play a very important role when it comes to maintaining the plant community in this ecosystem.

它们主要捕食昆虫，是食肉物，但它们在维持这个生态系统的植物群落中，确实起着相当重要的作用。

Paleontologists aren't sure what they ate, as their forearms were in between those of their carnivorous ancestors and the later specialized insectivores.

古生物家不确定他们吃什么，因为他们的前臂介于他们的肉食性祖先和后来专门的食虫物的前臂之间。

This seems like it could be a possibility, because there are modern insectivores, like some species of shrews, that use ultrasound for communication or navigation.

这似乎有可能，因为有一些现代食虫物，比如某些种类的鼩鼱， 会使用超声波进行交流或导航。

This site was a lake where mayflies lived and swarmed to mate as they do today providing as a side effect a feast for local insectivores.

这个遗址曾经是一个湖泊，蜉蝣在这里生活并像今天一样聚集交配，顺便为当地的食虫物提供了盛宴。

While there is some debate about it, paleontologists think that Alvarezsaurus was an insectivore that used its finger claw to rip into logs in search of termites.

虽然对此存在一些争论，但古生物家认为阿尔瓦雷兹龙是一种食虫物，它用指爪撕裂原木以寻找白蚁。

And one reason this trait might've been important for early mammaliaforms and then for the first crown mammals is that many of them were small insectivores who probably hunted at night.

这一特征对于早期哺乳形类以及最初的冠群哺乳物来说可能很重要，原因之一是它们中的许多都是小型食虫物，很可能在夜间狩猎。

Some 180m years ago, during the early part of the Jurassic period, this site was a lake where mayflies lived and swarmed to mate, as they do today, providing, as a side-effect, a feast for local insectivores.

大约1.8亿年前，在侏罗纪早期，这个地方是一个湖泊，蜉蝣生活在那里，成群交配，就像今天一样，同时也为当地的食虫物提供了一场盛宴。

And the reason for that is probably because they were good strategies for survival in the niches that they occupied: being small to medium-sized insectivores living in a world full of large reptiles.

而原因可能是这些策略对于它们所占据的生态位来说是生存的好方法：作为小型到中型的食虫物，在一个充满大型爬行物的世界中生活。