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Sentences ending with insects

The silence awoke to the low hum of insects. [13]
He too knew something about insects. [6]
It is a noble staircase, and from a distance the people toiling up it looked like insects. [5]
This latter circumstance is well known to occur with most Lepidoptera, as well as with other insects. [1]
She loves me, I think, but she is a killer and a cannibal among other insects. [6]
The forest was full of a drowsy hum of insects. [13]
The canyon silence appeared full of the low, continuous hum of insects. [13]
They were insects. [5]

Short sentences using insects

Insects, defended, 190. [6]

More example sentences with the word insects in them

John buried him under the twin hawthorn-trees,--one white and the other pink,--in a spot where Calvin was fond of lying and listening to the hum of summer insects and the twitter of birds. [4]
The Hamadryas baboons turn over stones to find insects, etc. [1]
Even insects play together, as has been described by that excellent observer, P. Huber (7. [1]
My rest is to watch the habits of insects, those that I do not pretend to study. [6]
Associated insects have thus acquired many remarkable structures, which are of little or no service to the individual, such as the pollen-collecting apparatus, or the sting of the worker-bee, or the great jaws of soldier-ants. [1]
Hence it is this side which is often coloured so as to imitate the objects on which these insects commonly rest. [1]
The members of this lowly organised order are wingless, dull-coloured, minute insects, with ugly, almost misshapen heads and bodies. [1]
The generality of this fact is quite remarkable: it holds good with almost all mammals, birds, amphibians, and fishes; also with many crustaceans, spiders, and some few insects, such as certain orthoptera and libellulae. [1]
The Chinese keep these insects in little bamboo cages, and match them like game-cocks. [1]
But there are the whirring of locusts, the demoniac chuckle of the laughing jack-ass, the screeching of cockatoos and parrots, the hissing of the frilled lizard, and the buzzing of innumerable insects hidden under the dense undergrowth. [5]
In the autumn the observation of the chrysalis state of insects was connected with that of the various stages of their existence. [10]
On his shake-down that night, oblivious to the snores of his companions and the droning of the insects, he lay awake. [9]
Slender dragon-flies and smaller busy insects flitted buzzing from flower to flower, sucking honey from the brimming calyxes and bearing to others the seeds needed to form fruit. [10]
From the small size of insects, we are apt to undervalue their appearance. [1]
Riley, 'Third Annual Report on the Noxious Insects of Missouri,' 1871, pp. [1]
Those insects which possess the most wonderful instincts are certainly the most intelligent. [1]
We will confine our attention to the higher social animals; and pass over insects, although some of these are social, and aid one another in many important ways. [1]
Yes, there were other sounds--the twitter of birds in the bushes by the roadside, the hum of insects, and the faint rhythmical murmur of lapsing waves on the shore. [4]
Riley, Sixth 'Report on Insects of Missouri,' 1874, p. [1]
From the fact of the Heliconidae being conspicuous and beautiful insects, yet so numerous in individuals and species, he concluded that they must be protected from the attacks of enemies by some secretion or odour; and this conclusion has now been amply confirmed (30. [1]
But the law of battle does not prevail nearly so widely with insects as with the higher animals. [1]
As I try now to cast my memory back I can recall no fear, only a vast sense of loneliness, and the very song of it seemed to be sung in never ending refrain by the insects of the night. [9]
Hence there is no abstract improbability in the Lepidoptera, which probably stand nearly or quite as high in the scale as these insects, having sufficient mental capacity to admire bright colours. [1]
Mr. Trimen informs me that at the Cape of Good Hope these insects make a wonderful noise during the night. [1]
There came a lull in the firing and then a faint, droning noise like the humming of insects on a still summer day. [9]
They have other kinds of insects, but it does not make them arrogant. [5]
The Greeks formerly kept, and the Chinese now keep these insects in cages for the sake of their song, so that it must be pleasing to the ears of some men. [1]
See Mr. J. Jenner Weir's paper on Insects and Insectivorous Birds, in 'Transact. [1]
They seize nuts, insects, or other small objects with the thumb in opposition to the fingers, and no doubt they thus extract eggs and young from the nests of birds. [1]
With respect to insects see Dr. Laycock, "On a General Law of Vital Periodicity," 'British Association,' 1842. [1]
The colouring of insects is a complex and obscure subject. [1]
Most of these insects are large and splendidly coloured. [1]
Horses and cattle in the distance were as insects, and in the great concave sky stars still wan from the intolerant light of their master, the Sun, looked timidly out to see him burn his way down to the under-world. [11]
The analogy, indeed, in all these respects between birds and insects is curiously close. [1]
Hence it is in accordance with Mr. Bates' view, hereafter to be explained, that many insects mimic the Lampyridae closely, in order to be mistaken for them, and thus to escape destruction. [1]
It was written in a discoloured blank-book, which had escaped the devastations of the mice and insects, because it had lain under a pile of aromatic herbs and drugs that had probably belonged to the shop of the Court apothecary. [10]
Yes, yes, I have amused a summer or two with insects, among other things. [6]
How many things had to be considered before this structure at last stood complete on this marshy spot where the air seemed alive with disgusting insects and now it is finished how long will it last? [10]
Thick clouds of gnats followed these tormented gangs, who with dull and spirit-broken endurance suffered alike the stings of the insects and the blows of their driver. [10]
Mr. Riley has given analogous facts in the 'Third Annual Report on the Noxious Insects of Missouri,' 1871, p. 148. [1]
The air was full of the smell of flowers, and the buzzing of insects, and the twittering of birds, and there were no people, no wagons, there was no stir of life, nothing going on. [5]
Usually in a forest at night one can hear the piping of frogs, the hum of insects, or the dropping of limbs; but here nature was dumb. [5]
These troublesome insects, engendered by the Nile, fly low, and these little watch-towers were built as a protection from them. [10]
There was a drowsy hum of insects, but no other sound disturbed the warm midday stillness. [13]
We meet with closely analogous facts with insects, for in ants the cerebral ganglia are of extraordinary dimensions, and in all the Hymenoptera these ganglia are many times larger than in the less intelligent orders, such as beetles. [1]
Conspicuous colours may be of use to these insects, by giving notice that they are unpalatable. [1]
They keep aphides and other insects as milch-cows. [1]
It may be added that the mental faculties of the Diptera are probably higher than in most other insects, in accordance with their highly- developed nervous system. [1]
I am studying about insects in Zoology, and I have learned many things about butterflies. [6]

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