How to Use brine shrimp in a Sentence

brine shrimp

noun

• So, like the lakes themselves, the brine shrimp too are zombies of a sort.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2023
• Want to venture a guess how many brine shrimp grebes eat in one day?
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Sep. 2021
• The time-traveling males in this case are brine shrimp (a k a sea monkeys).
  — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 16 June 2011
• That could mean less plankton, less plankton could mean less brine shrimp, and that means less food for the grebes.
  — Sara Tabin, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 July 2021
• The brine shrimp that is harvested from the lake and sold as food would disappear.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 8 June 2021
• Her research traced the microbes that live in the brine to the diets of the region’s three species of flamingos, which eat brine shrimp.
  — Ian Morse, Quartz, 22 Dec. 2020
• And many of those fish survive on fresh brine shrimp flown in from Florida each week.
  — Jason Bittel, Smithsonian, 11 Sep. 2017
• If the population of algae crashes, so would the brine shrimp.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 22 July 2022
• Higher levels of salt threaten the life cycles of the brine shrimp, brine flies, algae and microbes that live in the water.
  — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Sep. 2022
• After a half-dozen of these up/down cycles, the researchers left the brine shrimp on the bottom of the tank and read the salinity at a variety of depths.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 20 Apr. 2018
• The Great Salt Lake is important for industries like tourism and the harvesting of brine shrimp eggs.
  — Sara Tabin, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 July 2021
• The mushroom-like structures are formed by furry, deep green mats of microbes, which are the base of the lake’s food chain and main sustenance for brine shrimp.
  — NBC News, 3 Feb. 2022
• Great Salt Lake brine shrimp of all ages, including adults with eggs attached near their tails, are seen in this 2001 photo.
  — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Oct. 2022
• Every single polyp that was given the choice ate almost twice as many microbeads as brine shrimp eggs.
  — Jenny Howard, National Geographic, 25 June 2019
• But when rains come, the eggs unfurl into small, feathery crustaceans called fairy shrimp, the freshwater cousins of brine shrimp.
  — Sabrina Imbler New York Times, Star Tribune, 24 Sep. 2020
• To get the brine shrimp to migrate, the researchers simply took advantage of the fact that these organisms migrate toward the light.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 20 Apr. 2018
• The lake’s shrinking led boaters to take their craft out of the marina and threatened microbial habitats that feed the only life form that lives in the lake: brine shrimp.
  — Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Dec. 2021
• Instead of netting brine shrimp and viewing shorebirds, Butler was home sick in bed.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Sep. 2021
• Among the many migratory birds that depend on brine shrimp are Wilson's phalaropes.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 22 July 2022
• The bird is looking for food, mainly brine shrimp, and this afternoon the lake is unusually dry.
  — New York Times, 28 Dec. 2021
• Brine flies and brine shrimp are saline lakes’ most unique and charismatic endemic critters.
  — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Nov. 2022
• In fact, there is so much brine shrimp cyst present that Luft is considering extending the harvest.
  — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Dec. 2020
• No fish swim here, but brine shrimp do, and those draw myriad bird species that migrate along the Pacific Flyway.
  — Chelsee Lowe, Travel + Leisure, 4 Mar. 2023
• In these native habitats, the birds feast on a diet of algae, brine shrimp, and plankton—the same foods that San Diego's sole flamingo and a host of other birds enjoy.
  — National Geographic, 9 Mar. 2018
• The algae is a crucial food source for brine shrimp that live in the lake, which in turn are crucial food sources for the millions of migratory birds that travel through the area each year.
  — Cami Mondeaux, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2023
• As the lake level drops, the water is becoming increasingly saline and therefore less hospitable to brine shrimp that form the basis of the food chain.
  — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Jan. 2022
• If the organisms that support brine flies and brine shrimp die off, that will mean no food for the millions of migrating birds that seek the Great Salt Lake as a reprieve every year.
  — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 July 2022
• Others lamented the collapse of microbialites across the lake, which serve as the foundation of a food web for brine shrimp, brine flies and millions of migrating birds.
  — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Oct. 2022
• That’s concerning because while a lot of birds depend on the lake’s brine shrimp to survive — including 5 million eared grebe — a lot more flocks rely on the flies.
  — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Nov. 2022
• The waters in California’s dry lakes have delivered a living bumper crop — brine shrimp.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2023

Last Updated: 23 Oct 2024