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Example sentences for "insect life"

  • Before leaving the department of insect life, there is a collateral and complementary series of observations, bearing upon the nature and activity of ANTS, which deserves attention.

  • CE] By a line of inference exactly similar, a like conclusion, must be reached as to insect life.

  • This is, however, not the only purpose for which man has designedly introduced foreign forms of insect life.

  • But in the economy of the forest European writers ascribe to insect life an importance which it has not reached in America, where the spontaneous woods are protected by safeguards of nature's own devising.

  • The former offer no attractions to allure the various forms of insect life.

  • The ground, the vegetation, and the atmosphere are alive with insect life.

  • The deep hum of insect life, the chirping of the birds, the sounds of men, begin to break the hush of night.

  • In the night they emerge, and in the morning and evening there is a deafening din of insect life.

  • Everywhere and always we hear the whirr and hum of insect life, sometimes soft and soothing, sometimes harsh and strident.

  • But the actual distance that it traverses on the occasion of its first attempt must be determined by the relative abundance or scarcity of the particular kind of insect life which it requires.

  • Here is an alluring opportunity for anyone to add to our knowledge of insect life; for the most recent scientific books admit that we do not yet know the complete life history of even one of these little brothers of the pond.

  • Such signs are the brightening colours of the meadows, and the growing hosts of insect life.

  • It is true enough that, to most men, a knowledge of flowers or fossils, of insect life or of the habits of birds, will bring no return in hard cash.

  • We have, indeed, only to picture to ourselves what the consequence of a continuance of summer would be on insect life to arrive at an idea of the antagonistic influences obtaining in such worlds to the survival of larger organisms.

  • As regards the conditions of insect life in the higher alps, it came to my notice in a very striking manner that vast numbers of such bees and butterflies as venture up perish in the cold of night time.

  • In short, I believe a satisfactory explanation is to be found in the conditions of insect life in the higher alps.

  • Insect Life By John Henry Comstock, Professor of Entomology in Cornell University.

  • On the Pacific slope the influence of the seasons on insect life is greater than on the Atlantic slope.

  • The study of the minuter forms of insect life, including Parasites, Thysanura, Mallophaga, the newly hatched of most insects, etc.

  • Smith recommends a modification of the Dimmock process of bleaching the wings of Lepidoptera, publishing it in Insect Life, Vol.

  • A method of mounting wings of small Lepidoptera for studying venation, which I have found very convenient, is thus described by Mr. Howard in Insect Life, Vol.

  • Subsidences, the effect of, on insect life, 114.

  • I have myself observed, in Madeira, large forest tracts, at a considerable elevation above the sea, and which are so densely clothed with wood as to be scarcely penetrable, almost destitute of insect life.

  • It is a charming little creature to note as it sweeps round in quest of insect life.

  • Railway cuttings are much frequented both by Martins and Wagtails because the passing of a train stirs up insect life in it.

  • As to the undeveloped forms of insect life, the light vegetable mud is full of these.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    came together; classical education; dicto secundum; differ much; different kinds; flatter myself; going from; insect life; insect pests; native name; night home; not having; personal danger; reproduced here; richly dressed; seems also; shall fall; stern voice; the fish; three steps; white sand; will fall; wore ship