insects

Familiarity with life cycles of insects that are disease vectors helps in timing plantings to avoid the insects’ active periods.

5. How plants live and grow 1991

Starting to prove that insects fertilize the flowers, his carefully observed facts only served to demonstrate in many cases the reverse -- that _insects could not fertilize_ flowers in the manner he had declared.

My Studio Neighbors William Hamilton Gibson 1873

An extremely curious object of research would be to consider insects in this new point of view, I say _insects_, for I do not conceive that any thing analogous will be found in other species of animals.

New observations on the natural history of bees Fran��ois Huber 1790

The volume of the insects is at the highest, a kind of resurrection high.

Supernova Nicholas Rombes 2010

The entomologists get away with it not only because they have more species, but also because certain insects are major crop pests while others spread disease.

Where are all the malacologists? AYDIN 2009

Do you have any actual evidence that social behavior in insects evolved?

At What Level did this Evolve? 2009

The hum of insects is everywhere but happily they all seem far more interested in the flowers than the humans.

Jeanne Devon ("AKMuckraker"): Chuitna and the Curse of Coal "AKMuckraker" 2010

Daniel Smith: Do you have any actual evidence that social behavior in insects evolved?

At What Level did this Evolve? 2009

The hum of insects is everywhere but happily they all seem far more interested in the flowers than the humans.

Jeanne Devon ("AKMuckraker"): Chuitna and the Curse of Coal Jeanne Devon ( 2010

The hum of insects is everywhere but happily they all seem far more interested in the flowers than the humans.

Jeanne Devon ("AKMuckraker"): Chuitna and the Curse of Coal "AKMuckraker" 2010