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149 examples of Insect in a sentence

Some fruits get some insect damage.
Cochineal is a product of an insect that lives off these cacti.
Furthermore, per kilogram of manure, you have much, much less ammonia and fewer greenhouse gases when you have insect manure than when you have cow manure.
And maybe by 2020, you'll buy them just knowing that this is an insect that you're going to eat.
They've created a kind of insect bot, or bugbot.
So I assume everybody knows that if you actually had a piece of amber and it had an insect in it, and you drilled into it, and you got something out of that insect, and you cloned it, and you did it over and over and over again, you'd have a room full of mosquitos.
And there's an orchid that might look to you as if it's got jaws, and in a way, it has; it forces the insect to crawl out, getting covered in pollen that it takes somewhere else.
And sure enough, there's the insect.
This flower with its black dots: they might look like black dots to us, but if I tell you, to a male insect of the right species, that looks like two females who are really, really hot to trot.
And when the insect gets there and lands on it, dousing itself in pollen, of course, that it's going to take to another plant, if you look at the every-home-should-have-one scanning electron microscope picture, you can see that there are actually some patterning there, which is three-dimensional.
So it probably even feels good for the insect, as well as looking good.
Sometimes the whole plant mimics an insect, even to us.
They're sending out a fantastic array of scent to any insect that'll have it.
So what is an insect seeing?
If it wasn't able to stretch so much, then basically when an insect hit the web, it would just trampoline right off of it.
So if the web was made entirely out of dragline silk, an insect is very likely to just bounce right off.
Instead, scytodes sort of lurks around and waits for prey to get close to it, and then immobilizes prey by spraying a silk-like venom onto that insect.
There are nearly a million known insect species in the world, but most have one of just five common types of mouthparts.
And that’s extremely useful to scientists because when they encounter an unfamiliar insect in the wild, they can learn a lot about it just by examining how it eats.
Well, it'd be amazing, since we're talking about an insect with only one million brain cells.
But most bats are voracious insect predators.
Interestingly, Madeira first got the insect in 2005, and here we are, a few years later, first cases of dengue.
Well, the problem was in thinking that the insect wings function in the way that aircraft wings work.
Well, look at this interesting insect.
(Nature sounds) When I first began recording wild soundscapes 45 years ago, I had no idea that ants, insect larvae, sea anemones and viruses created a sound signature.
So the fearsome power of this little insect was apparent to me from a very young age, and it's one reason why I spent five years as a journalist trying to understand, why has malaria been such a horrible scourge for all of us for so very long?
So the insect is continually trying to fight off the parasite, and so is the human body continually trying to fight it off.
It moves through the plant so that a crop pest, a leaf-eating insect, would take a bite of the plant and get a lethal dose and die.
So the beauty of helping bees this way, for me, is that every one of us needs to behave a little bit more like a bee society, an insect society, where each of our individual actions can contribute to a grand solution, an emergent property, that's much greater than the mere sum of our individual actions.
It can have all the characteristics of leather because it is made of the same cells, and better yet, there is no hair to remove, no scars or insect's bites, and no waste.
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