Insects in sentence

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And I'm working very hard with my colleague, Arnold van Huis, in telling people what insects are, what magnificent things they are, what magnificent jobs they do in nature.

And in fact, without insects, we would not be here in this room, because if the insects die out, we will soon die out as well.

If we die out, the insects will continue very happily.

So we have to get used to the idea of eating insects.

Well in the Netherlands, we have an innovative Minister of Agriculture, and she puts the insects on the menu in her restaurant in her ministry.

And when she got all the Ministers of Agriculture of the E.U. over to the Hague recently, she went to a high-class restaurant, and they ate insects all together.

So why not eat insects?

A couple of years ago, we had 1,750 people all together in a square in Wageningen town, and they ate insects at the same moment, and this was still big, big news.

I think soon it will not be big news anymore when we all eat insects, because it's just a normal way of doing.

It's not just insects.

You see insects, you see frogs, snakes, eagles, butterflies, frogs, snakes, eagles.

The insects are eaten by the frogs; the frogs are eaten by the snakes; the snakes are eaten by the eagles.

So you'll notice that many of the symbols look like pictures of humans, of insects, of fishes, of birds.

But most species actually use insects to do their bidding, and that's more intelligent in a way, because the pollen, they don't need so much of it.

The insects and other species can take the pollen, transfer it directly to where it's required.

So we're aware, obviously, of the relationship between insects and plants.

There are markings on many plants that look like other insects.

This is a plant here that insects in South Africa just love, and they've evolved with a long proboscis to get the nectar at the bottom.

The other thing it does is that this plant mimics another orchid that has a wonderful store of food for insects.

Now most pollinators that we think about are insects, but actually in the tropics, many birds and butterflies pollinate.

Insects see green, blue and ultraviolet, and they see various shades of ultraviolet.

It features a pair of jaws called mandibles with toothed inner edges that cut up and crush solid foods, like leaves or other insects.

Insects in the Hemiptera order have piercing-sucking mouthparts and include bed bugs, cicadas, aphids, and leafhoppers.

Insects of the Lepidoptera order— butterflies and moths— keep their proboscises rolled up tightly beneath their heads when they’re not feeding and unfurl them when they come across some sweet nectar.

House flies, fruit flies, and the other non-biting members of the Diptera order are the only insects that use this technique.

The juvenile stages of some insects, for example, have completely different kinds of mouths than their adult versions, like caterpillars, which use chewing mouthparts to devour leaves before metamorphosing into butterflies and moths with siphoning mouthparts.

Still, mouthpart identification can, for the most part, help scientists—and you —categorize insects.

How about insects?

I watch it sniffing the paper ceaselessly, intent as any forager that has nothing on its mind but the grubs and insects that will allow it to live another day.

And so you can see dinosaurs and insects and collections of locomotives and all of that, but you're really not involved; you're being talked to.

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