The beetles would move away for lack of preferred habitat and the suckers rise.

We strike out on a muddy path into woodland, the fox's preferred habitat.

Motorways are the preferred habitat for this car, its suspension engineered for relaxed high-speed cruising.

From 1976 to 2001, the average size of bamboo forest patch—the panda's preferred habitat—shrunk by around 24 percent, only recovering by 1.8 percent in the years since.

Areas in their preferred habitat are being converted to agricultural use and increases in wind turbines and power lines are also taking a toll on the species.