How to Use insect in a Sentence

insect

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• Turns out these insects have been some of the world’s tiniest farmers for 66 million years.
  — Daniel Wine, CNN, 7 Oct. 2024
• Avoid piling mulch against stems and tree trunks, which can trap moisture and cause problems with disease and insects.
  — Luke Miller, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Sep. 2024
• Papp: Imagine a little critter that isn’t quite an insect or an animal.
  — Ashleigh Papp, Scientific American, 30 Nov. 2022
• All spiders have four pairs of legs, unlike an insect’s three, and a body divided into cephalothorax and abdomen.
  — Erin Middlewood | The Columbian, oregonlive, 30 Oct. 2022
• Symptoms on White Oak can be confused with other insect or disease problems.
  — cleveland, 9 Nov. 2022
• Yiling got its start in 1992 with a herb-and-insect pill marketed as a treatment for heart disease.
  — Mary Hui, Quartz, 16 Nov. 2022
• Many of these insects are seeking the best digs in preparation for the winter, and the dark, damp, warm and food-rich heaps are the perfect spot for plenty of different species.
  — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2024
• The insect starts as a wriggling, wormlike larva, then seals itself into an inert pupa that looks like a living sleeping bag, emerging as a full-grown adult.
  — Joshua Sokol, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2022
• With regular watering, careful pruning, and taking measures to prevent insect damage, your trees will thrive for decades.
  — Rachael Baihn, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Oct. 2022
• An invasive insect has damaged thousands of ash trees in North America, and Marucci’s maple bats are the order of the day.
  — Dan Shaughnessy, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Nov. 2022
• Dried off and placed under the microscope on his desk, the first speck revealed itself to be an entire, perfect insect with long, jointed antennae and delicately filigreed wings.
  — Brooke Jarvis, WIRED, 10 Nov. 2022
• The experience of walking through these four unique biomes was just enlightening, from the butterfly habitat to the monkeys to the beehive, with the sound of the beehive being pumped into the insect biome.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Oct. 2022
• But this insect leaves one of the most painful bug bites.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 19 Jan. 2023
• This plant shows signs of an insect sucking on the sap of the plant.
  — oregonlive, 5 Feb. 2023
• Head Lice Lice are insects that lay eggs while attached to the hairs of the head.
  — Parents Editors, Parents, 6 June 2023
• And despite their name, the insects are not just found in the bedroom.
  — Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2023
• From birth to death, these insects shape the forest around them.
  — Celia Ford, WIRED, 28 Mar. 2024
• The insects fled only 47 percent of the time when the robot didn’t flash its wings.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 25 Jan. 2024
• The insect in the nymph stage has coloring similar to that in the adult stage.
  — oregonlive, 3 June 2023
• But a man a few feet away, who was allergic to the insect’s sting, was not alarmed.
  — Noah Lederman, Popular Science, 2 Nov. 2023
• Check for little holes in the husks, which could be insect or worm holes; avoid those ears and move on the next one.
  — Patricia S York, Southern Living, 29 May 2024
• That year, Mars launched a line of cat food made from insects, called LoveBug.
  — Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 20 Oct. 2023
• While there, researchers found a red insect perched on a twig and captured it.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 15 Feb. 2024
• While sage brush leaves make up the bulk of the sage grouse’s diet, the birds also feed on other plants and some insects.
  — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 11 Jan. 2024
• One way to prevent stings is to avoid making the insects feel threatened.
  — Michael Menna, Verywell Health, 11 May 2023
• The sharp fragrances of mint and rosemary leaves were meant to repel insects.
  — Rachel Riederer, The New Yorker, 12 June 2024
• It’s amplified in the tree boughs and joined by gentle insect songs.
  — Ryan Ballogg, Miami Herald, 29 Feb. 2024
• Starting this spring, trillions of the red-eyed insects crawled their way out of the ground across the Midwest and Southeast.
  — Zach Dyer, NPR, 26 June 2024
• Place a few weatherproof fans around your patio to keep the insects at bay.
  — Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 2 June 2023
• While most people are not allergic to stings from wasps, bees and other insects, irritation and pain can be intense and stings can swell and remain painful for days, according to the Mayo Clinic.
  — Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 6 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 28 Oct 2024