1. The Butterwort family of plants (Pinguicula) is another species of insectivore

2. Like other vesper bats, it is an insectivore, and it is thought that it may include butterflies in its diet.

3. It has been recorded as taking mudskippers, and in west Africa, one specimen had eaten a Gifford's giant shrew, an insectivore with a smell so noxious, most other snakes would not touch it.

4. The Aardvark (or Orycteropus afer) is a medium-size insectivore that lives throughout Sub-Saharan Africa.They have pink-grey skin with sparse, coarse hair, large slender ears and an elongated head that ends in a pig-like

5. Johnson^ Entomology Research Division, Agricultural Research Service^ This report on Anoplura associated with the rodent and insectivore fauna of the African continent and adjoining areas of the Near East is based in great part on collections made by Harry Hoogstraal