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‘Do We Know If Boo-Boo Is Allergic To Certain Insects?’
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In 2008, he started a website called Insects Are Food.
Would You Like Flies With That? Bug Eaters Try to Get Some Buzz 2010
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I studied a great book called Insects in Flight by John Brackenbury.
Utopiales Poster, Part 2 James Gurney 2009
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In the film, called Insects in the Backyard, actor-director Tanwarin Sukkahpisit plays Tanya, a single parent who idolizes Audrey Hepburn and dresses like her, too.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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About the end of this Month, the Trout begins to come in Season; for before this time, its Body is cover'd with little Insects, which is a
The Country Housewife and Lady's Director in the Management of a House, and the Delights and Profits of a Farm Richard Bradley 1710
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"Insects, " yelled Amanda, squirreling down the spruce trunk.
Another Roadside Attraction Robbins, Tom 1971
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Captain Stedman in Surinam, who under the head of "Insects" discourses chiefly of vampyre-bats.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 Various
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"Insects," the Ranger said with emphasis, thinking that he'd have liked to be able to use claws on this subject.
Fearful Symmetry A Terran Empire novel Ann Wilson
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ArticulataA great division of the Animal Kingdom characterised generally by having the surface of the body divided into rings called segments, a greater or less number of which are furnished with jointed legs (such as Insects, Crustaceans, and Centipedes).
Glossary of the Principal Scientific Terms Used in the Present Volume 1909
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[182] "Insects," i.e. lice, were an unfailing token of mediaelig; val sainthood.
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