Insects in sentence

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And I find it amazing that they're created by these tiny insects.

I think these graceful insects are truly miraculous because they so beautifully illuminate the creative improvisation of evolution.

Fireflies belong to a very beautiful and diverse group of insects, the beetles.

And almost every mammal you can think of has had a pheromone identified, and of course, an enormous number of insects.

Here's an animal using a normal, alternating tripod: three legs, three legs, three legs, but in nature, the insects often have lost their legs.

Each tree, each tree top, has up to 10,000 species of insects in it, let alone the millions of species of fungi, bacteria, etc.

We all know that ants and other insects at this size scale can do some pretty incredible things.

Insects move around amazingly well.

So these insects store energy in a spring and release that really quickly to get the high power they need to jump out of water, for example.

The really interesting thing that this robot can help us figure out is how insects move at this scale.

And even more interesting than that is that recent discoveries are telling us that insects and other little animals with smaller brains can use medication too.

What I think is important, though, is to move beyond these large-brained mammals and give these guys more credit, these simple animals, these insects that we tend to think of as very, very simple with tiny little brains.

And so if we take the sound of the forest and we actually turn down the gibbons, the insects, and the rest, in the background, the entire time, in recordings you heard, was the sound of a chainsaw at great distance.

But until recently, it was almost impossible to reliably protect bamboo from insects, and so, just about everything that was ever built out of bamboo is gone.

So, people are more afraid of insects than they are of dying.

And I suspect if you had put spiders in there, the combinations of insects and spiders would have just topped the chart.

I really love insects.

What is that keeps us coming back to insects?

We don't even know how many species of insects there are, because new ones are being discovered all the time.

More seriously, insects are essential.

Scientist use insects to make fundamental discoveries about everything from the structure of our nervous systems to how our genes and DNA work.

But what I love most about insects is what they can tell us about our own behavior.

Insects seem like they do everything that people do.

I think sex in insects is more interesting than sex in people.

Of course, to start with, a lot of insects don't need to have sex at all to reproduce.

Now, male insects do compete with weapons, like the horns on these beetles.

And also, did I mention sexual cannibalism is rampant among insects?

But what I think insects do, is break a lot of the rules that we humans have about the sex roles.

Even more generally though, males are actually not all that important in the lives of a lot of insects.

And you know, even today, my students, for instance, call every animal they see, including insects, a male.

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