These creatures resemble the ichneumon, in laying their eggs in the bodies of other insects, though they generally attack wasps and bees.
The female fly uses it to deposit her eggs in the body of other insects when in the egg, caterpillar, or pupa state; so that the young as soon as they are hatched may feed upon the caterpillar, penetrating to its very entrails.
Other insects, though they do not entirely devour the leaves of trees and plants, yet considerably diminish their beauty.
Various fungi now take possession and assist in the process, which is followed up by the incessant attacks of other insects, that feed only upon wood in an incipient state of decay.
Some deposit their eggs in the bodies of other insects, which die immediately the larvae which live in them have attained their full development.
We may conclude, therefore, that they possess some hidden means of protection, which makes it useful to other insects to be mistaken for them.
Other insects are as remarkable for bearing any degree of cold.
Other insects, when under alarm, discharge a fluid from the joints and segments of their body.
Stinging ants, like bees and wasps, are closely resembled by a host of other insects; indeed, whenever I found any insect provided with special means of defence I looked for imitative forms, and was never disappointed in finding them.
All over the world wasps are imitated in form and movements by other insects, and in the tropics these mimetic forms are endless.
The phosphorescent species of Lampyridae, the fireflies, so numerous in tropical America, are equally distasteful, and are also much mimicked by other insects.
The Lepidoptera undergo a complete larval metamorphosis, and the process is more familiar to general readers than in the case of other insects.
A large number of dipterous larvae eat refuse, many feed inside growing vegetable tissues, and some prey, or are parasitic, on other insects.
Besides these three principal and familiar groups the Hymenoptera include a host of other insects of great but inconspicuous importance.
The adult water-scavenger beetle feeds chiefly on decaying vegetation in the water, but instances of the taking of other insects and of snails have been noted.
Other insects, as the beetle and butterfly, are hatched in a form and condition apparently very different from that of the parents.
The Diptera or true flies are readily distinguishable from other insectsby their having a single pair of wings instead of two pairs, the hind wings being transformed into small knob-headed pedicels called balancers or halteres.
Other insects, as will be noticed in the course of this volume, are looked upon by these people with the same respect.
From this fact it is evident that the appearance is attributable to other insectsas well as the lepidoptera.
Like the eggs and young of other insects, however, those of the mole-cricket are exposed to depredation, and particularly to the ravages of a black beetle which burrows in similar localities.
It struck him as remarkable that it bore no resemblance to wood gnawed by other insects, such as the goat-moth caterpillar, which is granular like sawdust.
Their bodies are covered with hairs, unlike the hairs found on other insects, for each hair is a tiny plume.
They eat the aphids, the scales, and sometimes the eggs of other insects.
They never feed their babies on other insects, as the ants and wasps do.
Illustration] The number of spiders, in proportion to other insects, is here compared with England very much larger; perhaps more so than with any other division of the articulate animals.
The cause is to be found in that a portion of these families possess larvæ which are parasitic in other insects or in galls, their bodily structure having by these means become transformed in a quite different direction.
Their food consists of the young of other insects; in fact it is better to keep them by themselves unless we wish to have the aquarium depopulated.
When in summer you see hornets about your flower beds or feeding on other insects, it may be that they are preparing breakfast for the young.
You can feed them flies, other insects, and earthworms, and they may then leave the salamanders alone.
They can be collected with a dipper or net and will thrive in an aquarium if fed with earth worms or flies or other insects.
Other insects, belonging to the tribe which lay their eggs singly, bury them in the ground.
Eggs similarly furnished with a pedicle are also laid by other insects; but as most of these have been before alluded to, it is not necessary to describe them here[172].
Her eggs, as in other insects, are extruded one by one.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "other insects" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
