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Example sentences for "winged insects"

  • Among the scale-winged insects, however, carnivorous caterpillars are rare, seldom occurring among the moths and in hardly more than one species among the butterflies.

  • Hemiptera, or half-winged insects, have frequently half the upper wing membranous, like the under ones, while the other half is leathery.

  • Diptera, or two-winged insects, including the flies.

  • On their arrival, they resort to those places which, being most sheltered, abound most in winged insects, these being frequently the courses of rivers and canals.

  • Their food consists of winged insects, especially bees and wasps, which they not only catch when they are wandering at large through the air, but watch for near their nests.

  • The nerve-winged insects seem to form just such a group, for the principal things they have in common seem to be peculiar nerve-veined wings and blood-thirsty habits.


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