Not being attractive toinsects or visited by them the Groundsel is fertilized by the wind.
It is remarkable that no insects will prey on the leaves of this tree.
Or if two teaspoonfuls of the tincture are mixed with half a pint of cold water, and if all parts of the body likely to be exposed to the bites of insects are freely sponged therewith they will remain unassailed.
It once happened that a plague of insects destroyed the harvest in the island of Minorca, so that the inhabitants had to eat the wild produce of the country; and many of them then subsisted for some while entirely on this plant.
It is this curious element, in what seems otherwise a pure and delicious perfume, which attracts the meat-eating insects, or rather those insects which lay their eggs and hatch out their larvae in decaying animal matter.
If a hank of cotton is steeped in the oil of Lavender, and drained off so as to be hung dry about the neck, it will prevent bugs and other noxious insects from attacking that part.
This tincture, if dabbed oil the parts with a small sponge, will immediately relieve the pain and swelling caused by bites of insects or vermin.
By this time they were pretty familiar with insectsand reptiles, for it will be remembered that they had spent much time in the wilder places of their native country.
There were snakes and insectsin this almost tropical lower land.
Creeping insects find the way barred against them while the flying insect at once and easily reaches the stores of honey, not knowing any thing of the difficulties in the path of the less favored rival.
There remains in this department of inquiry only one additional set of facts, to which reference may be made, as illustrating distribution of work among insects and birds, assigning them to different orders of plants.
BZ] It is most obviously true, as Sir John Lubbock has said, that "neither plants nor insects would be what they are, but for the influence which each has exercised on the other.
It may be exceedingly difficult to fill up the line of progress, or trace the causes in operation, which could favor the conclusion that all the insects named have sprung from a common stock.
One of the most interesting fields of observation thus opened, is that concerned with the fertilization of plants by the intervention of insects and birds.
It naturally follows that all these insects have been going through some measure of adaptation, as well as the plants.
Just as clear as it is that pollen and seed are both required to provide for the continuance of plant life, so clear is it that plants are needed to support insects, and insects to propagate plants.
Still more perplexing might it be to maintain the argument that these very insects have sprung according to a sure law of descent, from vegetable life itself.
Some diseases, he says, are caused by evil spirits and some by minuteinsects (microbes?
The noxious insects are their materialized resentment at this fate.
In order to drive away certain destructiveinsects from the rice-fields a straw figure, made to resemble a cavalry soldier, is led round in stately procession, and finally flung into the sea.
The daily egg hunt was worth it because, before the era of pesticides, having chickens range through the orchard greatly reduced problems with insects in fruit.
And plant health doesn't suffer nor do diseases and insects become plagues.
The increasingly troubled farmer's attention was thus fixated on fighting against plant and animal diseases and insects with newer and better chemicals.
The agents of its formation are soil animals ranging in complexity from microorganisms through insects working together in a complex ecology.
It was once mistakenly believed that unraked lawn clippings built up on the ground as unrotted thatch, promoting harmfulinsects and diseases.
Millions ofinsects swarmed about the table, where before only thousands had gathered, attracted, doubtless, by Bill.
But finally she forgave my indiscretion, refilled the pail, and handing it to me, told me the insects were perfectly harmless, and were not known to sting anybody, unless they were harmed.
Powder Post Borers The character of the work of this class of insects is shown in Figs.
In dealing with the insects mentioned, as with forest insects in general, the methods which yield the best results are those which relate directly to preventing attack, as well as those which are unattractive or unfavorable.
The conditions favoring attack by these insects are similiar to those mentioned under "Round Timber.
The proper degree of moisture found in freshly cut living or dying wood, and the period when the insects are flying, are the conditions most favorable for attack.
Different species of insects have special periods during the season of activity (March to November), when the adults are on the wing in search of suitable material in which to deposit their eggs.
The insects may enter the wood before the bolts are cut from the log or afterward, especially if the bolts are left in moist, shady places in the woods, in close piles during the danger period.
The insects have two objects in their attack: one is to obtain food, the other is to prepare for the development of their broods.
Some of these insects have but one generation in a year, others have two or more, while some require more than one year for the complete development and transformation.
Some, a few only, whose numbers are steadily growing, say that these insects convey the germ of malaria.
About them, but for the buzz of the insects and the ripple of the water, all was still and silent.
That and the eternal droning of the insects which swarmed around.
Even the birds and the insectsseemed to have succumbed.
This shows that the organism can be brought into the condition of a vita minima in various ways, and it would not be at all remarkable if such a state were induced in certaininsects by hunger.
Footnote 146: They have now been observed in many species, so that their general occurrence in insects is tolerably certain.
Many moths and other insects are in this condition, living only to propagate their kind and then immediately dying, some not even taking any food in the perfect and reproductive state.
The protective cocoons by which the pupae of many insects are surrounded also belong to the same category, and improvement by practice is entirely out of the question, for they are only constructed once in the course of a life-time.
Insects which fly swiftly and are continually on the wing, like hawk-moths and dragon-flies, cannot be burdened with a very large number of ripe eggs.
In certain insects the development of the egg into the embryo, that is the segmentation of the egg, begins with the separation of a few small cells from the main body of the egg.
Experiment has shown that theseinsects can live for more than four months[28].
But it was due to his successor in this line of investigation that the whole significance of the cross-fertilization effected byinsects was made clear.
True, the heat was suffocating, and clouds of insects made devotion difficult, even for the most pious.
Not long before, an anonymous letter had come for Costantino, written in a villainous hand, with great sprawling characters that looked like insects crawling over the page.
I have not given these precautions for sowing seed in September for wintering over, for the reason that at that season of the year we are comparatively free from insects and drouths.
This system is supposed to draw out any insectsthat may lurk within.
A dark-bluish appearance, accompanying arrested development, generally due to unfavorable weather, unsuitable soil or insects at the root.
To remove any caterpillars or other insects which may have found lodgment in the cauliflower head it should be examined as carefully as possible, opening it a little if necessary.
Thither have all birds and insects migrated, and around the warm springs in his breast are gathered the robin and the lark.
Forest protection was poorly developed: ofinsects little, of fungi no knowledge existed.
Hand-picking was applied against caterpillars, also ditches into which the beetles were driven and then covered; the use of hogs in fighting insects was also known.
The development of the iron industry increased the drain on these supplies, which forest fires, insects and excessive grazing prevented from recuperating.
The interior of their lodges is dry, and always covered with a coat of hard white clay, a good precaution against insects and reptiles, the contrast of colour immediately betraying their presence.
One more observation to convince the reader of the superiority of the clime is, that, except a few ants in the forests, there are noinsects whatever to be found.
It was unpleasantly warm; mosquitoes and insects were a torment.
More often than she realized, Madge rested on her oars to watch queer insects swimming in the water or birds winging low in search for fish.
This would be all right if the insects were plentiful and lasted throughout the year, but as conditions are it will pay the farmer to supplement this source of food with the commercial meat foods.
Another substance much used for destroying insects or similar pests is carbon bisulphide.
This is a liquid which evaporates readily, the vapor destroying the insects or mites.
He fastened these reptiles, fishes, or insects in their places by fine threads, and then made a mould of the whole in plaster of Paris.
Palissy prepared a group of real leaves and stones, putting the little insects or animals he wished to represent in natural attitudes amongst them.
There are many striking instances in India of insectsbeing protected from their enemies by their likeness in colour and markings to the tree or plant on which they feed.
Hence in schools where many Indian children are gathered together these insects are sure to find an entrance, in spite of vigilant care and cleanliness.
Such a variety of insects come that an entomologist might make quite a respectable collection in the course of one night.
Mosquitoes are the most troublesome insects to be found in the tropics, although some districts are much more infested than others.
The body is a colony of living units called cells, that behaves much like a colony of insects when it takes measures to protect itself against its enemies.
It is like a stream that can be turned into various channels; the gall insects turn it into channels to suit their ends when they sting the leaf of a tree or the stalk of a plant, and deposit an egg in the wound.
Only the insects can do a thing like that; only certain insects can break into the circuit of vegetable life and divert its forces to serve their special ends.
At least four different insects get four different tunes, so to speak, out of the oak leaf.
Certain insects avail themselves of the animal organism also and go through their cycle of development and metamorphosis within its tissues or organs in a similar manner.
I admit that bank mynas are very partial to the fields of millet and other tall grain crops, but I am persuaded that they visit these for the insects that lurk on their spikes.
I noticed a pied woodpecker with someinsects in its bill.
When the insects expose themselves the woodpecker's tongue comes into operation.
Parties of minivets and cuckoo shrikes come and seek forinsects among the leaves of trees.
They are plovers that subsist largely upon flying insects which they catch when on the wing.
The wryneck derives its name from a curious habit it has of twisting its neck as it seeks for insects on a tree-trunk or mound.
They also eat insectsand snails, and seeds and green vegetable matter.
When not flitting about amid the foliage looking for insects they are playing hide-and-seek, or pouring out their canary-like song.
Since water is always conducive to the presence of the small insects on which swallows feed, these birds usually seek their quarry in the vicinity of the liquid element, and naturally roost near their feeding grounds.
Lastly, mention must be made of various species of pipits and warblers, who feed on insects down in the depths of the millet field.
The wryneck, like its cousins the woodpeckers, feeds almost exclusively on insects which it secures by means of the tongue.
I have seen a magpie-robin hunting for insects on a tangled mass of weeds and stems floating on water.
The comparatively hard probe-like bill of the hoopoe enables the bird to extract insects from ground on which the soft-billed snipe could make no impression.
Besides birds, small larvæ of several insects will eat, or at any rate kill, the ova in considerable numbers.
Corixæ and other smallinsects should also be given as often as possible.
Grass and other vegetation should be allowed to grow freely round the margins, as many insects are then likely to fall into the water.
Among the stubbled corn The blithe quail pipes at morn, The merry partridge drums in hidden places, And glittering insects gleam Above the reedy stream, Where busy spiders spin their filmy laces.
A kingbird chattered and shrieked overhead, the grasshoppers buzzed in the grasses, strange insects with ventriloquistic voices sang all about her--she could not tell where.
The setting sun, the noise of frogs, the nocturnal insects beginning to pipe--all in some way called her girlhood back to her, though there was little in her girlhood to give her pleasure.
Insects are so called from a separation in the middle of their bodies, seemingly cut into two parts, and joined together by a small ligature, as we see in wasps and common flies.
The case came before the Tribunal de l'Officialité, and Maître Marin was assigned to the insects as counsel.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "insects" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
