How to Use water flea in a Sentence

water flea

noun

• The spiny water flea was first identified in North American in 1984 in Lake Huron.
  — Popular Science, 17 Feb. 2021
• Other invaders arrived by the same route as the spiny water flea, in the ballast tanks of oceangoing freighters.
  — Tim Folger, Environment, 2 Dec. 2020
• Bythotrephes, a water flea with a long, spiny tail, eats other zooplankton and competes with fish for food.
  — Jason Treat, Magazine, 17 Nov. 2020
• The researchers also tested water that had been brewed with the plastic tea bags on water fleas.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 27 Sep. 2019
• Some of the key species of concern are zebra and quagga mussels, Eurasian water milfoil and spiny water fleas.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 June 2018
• Spice up your mating life with these relationship tips from sharks, lizards and water fleas.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Smithsonian, 28 Mar. 2017
• Rather than the acidity of the water, carbon dioxide itself seems to be affecting the water fleas.
  — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2018
• Andrei Savitsky's video of a water flea giving birth to cubs won third place in the competition.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Aug. 2021
• Peshkin’s own research focuses on the water flea, Latin name Daphnia, an insect barely visible to the naked eye.
  — Karen Weintraub, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2018
• Their numbers have been decimated by a fierce invasive predator, the spiny water flea.
  — Tim Folger, Environment, 2 Dec. 2020
• Perch have also been suspending well off the lake bottom to feed on invertebrates such as spiny water fleas, midge larvae and mayfly larvae, rather than minnows.
  — D'arcy Egan, cleveland, 20 Sep. 2019
• Euplotes skitters nimbly along surfaces atop cirri like some sort of Close Encounters–class water flea.
  — Jennifer Frazer, Scientific American, 22 May 2021
• The authors note that populations of small water fleas in the genus Daphnia, an important species in the lake food web, have declined precipitously since use of DDT began.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 15 June 2019
• As part of their study, the McGill team exposed water fleas, small aquatic organisms formally known as Daphnia magna, to various doses of microplastics and nanoplastics leached from tea bags.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 28 Sep. 2019
• But less welcome critters soon followed: sea lampreys, alewives, spiny water fleas, and the poster bivalves for ecological trouble, zebra and quagga mussels.
  — Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 July 2018
• The yellow perch seem to be suspending in deeper water, feeding on water fleas and ignoring perch rigs tipped with emerald shiner minnows, historically a slam dunk bait for catching a 30-fish limit of perch.
  — D'arcy Egan, cleveland.com, 9 Aug. 2019
• In this alternative state, predation is high, so minnow numbers are curbed; this allows water fleas to thrive (which suppresses algae) and bass hatchlings to reach maturity.
  — Quanta Magazine, 18 Nov. 2015
• Biologists have noticed a distinct diet shift, with perch foraging on invertebrates such as spiny water fleas and midge and mayfly larvae instead of emerald shiner minnows and other small fish.
  — D'arcy Egan, cleveland.com, 13 Sep. 2019

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