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insect

(ɪnsekt )

Word forms: insects

countable noun A2

An insect is a small animal that has six legs. Most insects have wings. Ants, flies, butterflies, and beetles are all insects.

They will also provide food for birds and insects.

Synonyms: bug, creepy-crawly [British, informal], gogga [South Africa, informal]

Image of insect

Collocations:

insect larvae

Others, like the web-footed tenrec, sport adaptations for aquatic life and hunt crustaceans and insect larvae under water.

Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0

Out on the open water they dive constantly for insect larvae and small fish, and will also dive to hide.

Times, Sunday Times

Grey wagtails, below, always stay close to the bankside, making only short forays into the fast-tumbling current at this time of year, seeking out spiders, small crustacea and insect larvae.

Times,Sunday Times

Gar are also known to eat insect larvae and algae.

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It forages on the ground for small invertebrates such as beetles, spiders and insect larvae.

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insect pollination

It would be wrong not to mention also the importance of insect pollination and in particular the role of honey bees in enhancing output of a wide range of crops.

Times, Sunday Times

This raises speculation about the possibility of insect pollination.

Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0

The existence of insect pollination dates back to the dinosaur era.

Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0

Plant species that depend on insect pollination may owe reproductive success to ultraviolet colors and patterns rather than how colorful they appear to humans.

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The plant requires insect pollination to set seed.

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insect pollinator

Plants and their insect pollinators, he surmised, must evolve in conjunction with one another in a process he coined “co-evolution” until they blossom into a dazzling array of forms.

Smithsonian Mag

As we gear up to feed 9 billion humans by 2050, we may be squeezing out the insect pollinators on which we ultimately depend for our food.

Times, Sunday Times

The cycads are of inter-est because they no longer rely on the wind for pollination, instead requiring specialised insect pollinators.

Times, Sunday Times

These losers include many of our insect pollinators, and some crickets and grasshoppers.

Times, Sunday Times

It emits a smell of rotting meat to attract insect pollinators, hence the name.

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insect population

The rapeseed crop produces copious amounts of pollen and nectar yielding vast quantities of commercial honey, with plenty to spare for the wild insect population.

Times, Sunday Times

Collecting and disposing of fallen leaves in autumn will help reduce the insect population next year.

The Sun

Trying to help the beleaguered bee and insect population after last summer's washout we left a section of our grass to grow long this year.

Times, Sunday Times

The insect population was surprisingly undramatic: in more ancient wetlands you would be tripping over dragonf lies and butterf lies.

Times, Sunday Times

However, the effect that this has had on the insect population may mean your disappointment will linger.

Times, Sunday Times

insect prey

Bats had an improved year after two wet summers had affected their insect prey.

Times, Sunday Times

A carnivorous plant displays what looks like intelligence to outwit its insect prey, scientists have learnt.

Times, Sunday Times

Like other bats, they get their picture of the world - including their insect prey - by emitting high-pitched sounds and detecting the echoes.

Times, Sunday Times

Water quality affects them directly when they drink and indirectly when they consume insect prey, many of which spend part of their lives growing in water.

Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0

On the sandy moorland tracks burrowing bees and wasps excavate tiny burrows and the vivid, jewel-like green tiger beetles scurry with pace, hunting down smaller insect prey.

Times, Sunday Times

insect repellant

One shirt has an in-built insect repellant that lasts for 50 washes.

Times, Sunday Times

Other equipment includes wicking garments, water bottles, sunscreen, sunglasses, gaiters, insect repellant spray, and ivy block.

Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0

Covering skin with clothing and using insect repellants can help prevent tick bites.

Times, Sunday Times

These chemicals may act as insect repellants against mosquitos.

Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0

insect sting

Not from an insect sting.

Times, Sunday Times

It can also result from food allergy or insect stings.

Houston Chronicle

There are many causes - including allergies to insect stings and certain foods, and reactions to medicines such as aspirin and some heart pills.

The Sun

Insect stings and bites - rub a cut clove directly on to the bite or sting (after the sting has been removed) to zap the heat.

Times, Sunday Times

Insect stings are among a host of causes that include penicillin, injections or contact with natural rubber.

The Sun

insect vector

Are you water-borne or transmitted by an insect vector?

The Times Literary Supplement

The plan was somewhat vague: perhaps to control the insect vector, perhaps to do work on its biology.

Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0

Infected erythrocytes are then taken up when the insect vector feeds on the host.

Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0

The concentration of phytoplasmas, at the salivary glands of the insect vector after incubation period, also varies transmission.

Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0

The nematode can not travel outside of the wood independently; it must be transported by an insect vector.

Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0

insect wings

It was an important step in showing the homology of all insect wings.

Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0

She emerges with a pair of insect wings.

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In the first season, his wings resembled leathery insect wings.

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He's the strongest in the group, and can grow insect wings that allow him to fly.

Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0

Insect wings do not constitute appendages in technical parlance, as insects only have one pair of appendages per segment.

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parasitic insect

They are small, greyish parasitic insects about 3-4mm long that live only on human scalps.

The Sun

Parasitic ichnofossils include plant remains which exhibit characteristic signs of parasitic insect infestation, such as galls or leaf mines and certain anomalies seen in invertebrate endoskeletal remains.

Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0

The parasitic insects feed on human blood and often leave huge welts and sores, although most people do not feel them biting as the bugs' saliva contains an anaesthetic.

The Sun

The larvae are sometimes parasitised by other parasitic insects.

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Gaur bulls may charge unprovoked, especially during summer, when the intense heat and parasitic insects make them more short-tempered than usual.

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predatory insect

As a predatory insect, it feeds on other smaller arthropods such as springtails.

Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0

It's a predatory insect, feeding mainly on smaller flies and predatory hymenopterans.

Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0

Diving beetles are predatory insects found across the northern hemisphere.

Times, Sunday Times

There are dangers: pesticides, birds and predatory insects, notably wasps.

Times, Sunday Times

They also provided an important source of food for birds, fish, bats and predatory insects.

Times, Sunday Times

species of insect

That's 24,000 of the million species of insect - there are about 5,500 species of mammal - so far described.

Times, Sunday Times

How many species of insect can you name?

Times, Sunday Times

An oak may be home to 350 species of insect and 30 lichens.

Times, Sunday Times

Over 30 species of insect depend on it, as do 14 species of fungi.

Times, Sunday Times

But because of the deforestation taking place, it seems that literally thousands of species of insect are being destroyed before they have been discovered.

Times, Sunday Times

stinging insect

However, visitors complain that they have been forced to play dodge the stinging insect as thousands of wasps pursued them round the park.

Times, Sunday Times

And there's that stinging insect with neon green eyes.

Globe and Mail

It looks somewhat like a drone honey bee, and likely gains some degree of protection from this resemblance to a stinging insect.

Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0

They rub stinging insects against their perch to remove the venom, but often eat the sting.

Times, Sunday Times

Wave after wave of the stinging insects swept through the compartment, flying into passengers' hair and faces.

The Sun

tiny insect

It seemed unbelievable that a tiny insect bite could leave me like this.

Times, Sunday Times

For such a tiny insect (5mm-20mm), they are long-lived, surviving for up to eight years in laboratories.

Times, Sunday Times

The waste of it all was ferocious: every spoonful of food, every broken night, every pulled-up sock and new word taught - gone, in a second, because of one, tiny insect.

Times, Sunday Times

This tiny insect wreaks havoc in two simple ways.

Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0

Vernal migrations feature everything from fish and birds to big, shaggy mammals and tiny insects.

Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0

trap an insect

First he has to trap the insect, then he puts it into a chiller until it becomes lethargic.

The Sun

The draft law will also forbid insect traps that use lights and restrict the installation of street lamps and illuminated advertisements in nature reserves.

Times,Sunday Times

They have no teeth, but produce a large amount of sticky saliva to trap the insects, as well as backward-pointing spines on their tongues.

Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0

This was discovered accidentally when the predatory beetles and other enemies were attracted to insect traps baited with bark beetle pheromones.

Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0

Insect traps are sometimes used in pest management programs instead of pesticides but are more often used to look at seasonal and distributional patterns of pest occurrence.

Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0

Translations:

Chinese: 昆虫

Japanese: 昆虫

单词	insect
释义	insect (ɪnsekt ) Word forms: insects countable noun A2 An insect is a small animal that has six legs. Most insects have wings. Ants, flies, butterflies, and beetles are all insects. They will also provide food for birds and insects. Synonyms: bug, creepy-crawly [British, informal], gogga [South Africa, informal] Image of insect © irin-k, Shutterstock Collocations: insect larvae Others, like the web-footed tenrec, sport adaptations for aquatic life and hunt crustaceans and insect larvae under water. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Out on the open water they dive constantly for insect larvae and small fish, and will also dive to hide. Times, Sunday Times Grey wagtails, below, always stay close to the bankside, making only short forays into the fast-tumbling current at this time of year, seeking out spiders, small crustacea and insect larvae. Times,Sunday Times Gar are also known to eat insect larvae and algae. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It forages on the ground for small invertebrates such as beetles, spiders and insect larvae. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 insect pollination It would be wrong not to mention also the importance of insect pollination and in particular the role of honey bees in enhancing output of a wide range of crops. Times, Sunday Times This raises speculation about the possibility of insect pollination. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The existence of insect pollination dates back to the dinosaur era. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Plant species that depend on insect pollination may owe reproductive success to ultraviolet colors and patterns rather than how colorful they appear to humans. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The plant requires insect pollination to set seed. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 insect pollinator Plants and their insect pollinators, he surmised, must evolve in conjunction with one another in a process he coined “co-evolution” until they blossom into a dazzling array of forms. Smithsonian Mag As we gear up to feed 9 billion humans by 2050, we may be squeezing out the insect pollinators on which we ultimately depend for our food. Times, Sunday Times The cycads are of inter-est because they no longer rely on the wind for pollination, instead requiring specialised insect pollinators. Times, Sunday Times These losers include many of our insect pollinators, and some crickets and grasshoppers. Times, Sunday Times It emits a smell of rotting meat to attract insect pollinators, hence the name. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 insect population The rapeseed crop produces copious amounts of pollen and nectar yielding vast quantities of commercial honey, with plenty to spare for the wild insect population. Times, Sunday Times Collecting and disposing of fallen leaves in autumn will help reduce the insect population next year. The Sun Trying to help the beleaguered bee and insect population after last summer's washout we left a section of our grass to grow long this year. Times, Sunday Times The insect population was surprisingly undramatic: in more ancient wetlands you would be tripping over dragonf lies and butterf lies. Times, Sunday Times However, the effect that this has had on the insect population may mean your disappointment will linger. Times, Sunday Times insect prey Bats had an improved year after two wet summers had affected their insect prey. Times, Sunday Times A carnivorous plant displays what looks like intelligence to outwit its insect prey, scientists have learnt. Times, Sunday Times Like other bats, they get their picture of the world - including their insect prey - by emitting high-pitched sounds and detecting the echoes. Times, Sunday Times Water quality affects them directly when they drink and indirectly when they consume insect prey, many of which spend part of their lives growing in water. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 On the sandy moorland tracks burrowing bees and wasps excavate tiny burrows and the vivid, jewel-like green tiger beetles scurry with pace, hunting down smaller insect prey. Times, Sunday Times insect repellant One shirt has an in-built insect repellant that lasts for 50 washes. Times, Sunday Times Other equipment includes wicking garments, water bottles, sunscreen, sunglasses, gaiters, insect repellant spray, and ivy block. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Covering skin with clothing and using insect repellants can help prevent tick bites. Times, Sunday Times These chemicals may act as insect repellants against mosquitos. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 insect sting Not from an insect sting. Times, Sunday Times It can also result from food allergy or insect stings. Houston Chronicle There are many causes - including allergies to insect stings and certain foods, and reactions to medicines such as aspirin and some heart pills. The Sun Insect stings and bites - rub a cut clove directly on to the bite or sting (after the sting has been removed) to zap the heat. Times, Sunday Times Insect stings are among a host of causes that include penicillin, injections or contact with natural rubber. The Sun insect vector Are you water-borne or transmitted by an insect vector? The Times Literary Supplement The plan was somewhat vague: perhaps to control the insect vector, perhaps to do work on its biology. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Infected erythrocytes are then taken up when the insect vector feeds on the host. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The concentration of phytoplasmas, at the salivary glands of the insect vector after incubation period, also varies transmission. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The nematode can not travel outside of the wood independently; it must be transported by an insect vector. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 insect wings It was an important step in showing the homology of all insect wings. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 She emerges with a pair of insect wings. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In the first season, his wings resembled leathery insect wings. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He's the strongest in the group, and can grow insect wings that allow him to fly. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Insect wings do not constitute appendages in technical parlance, as insects only have one pair of appendages per segment. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 parasitic insect They are small, greyish parasitic insects about 3-4mm long that live only on human scalps. The Sun Parasitic ichnofossils include plant remains which exhibit characteristic signs of parasitic insect infestation, such as galls or leaf mines and certain anomalies seen in invertebrate endoskeletal remains. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The parasitic insects feed on human blood and often leave huge welts and sores, although most people do not feel them biting as the bugs' saliva contains an anaesthetic. The Sun The larvae are sometimes parasitised by other parasitic insects. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Gaur bulls may charge unprovoked, especially during summer, when the intense heat and parasitic insects make them more short-tempered than usual. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 predatory insect As a predatory insect, it feeds on other smaller arthropods such as springtails. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It's a predatory insect, feeding mainly on smaller flies and predatory hymenopterans. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Diving beetles are predatory insects found across the northern hemisphere. Times, Sunday Times There are dangers: pesticides, birds and predatory insects, notably wasps. Times, Sunday Times They also provided an important source of food for birds, fish, bats and predatory insects. Times, Sunday Times species of insect That's 24,000 of the million species of insect - there are about 5,500 species of mammal - so far described. Times, Sunday Times How many species of insect can you name? Times, Sunday Times An oak may be home to 350 species of insect and 30 lichens. Times, Sunday Times Over 30 species of insect depend on it, as do 14 species of fungi. Times, Sunday Times But because of the deforestation taking place, it seems that literally thousands of species of insect are being destroyed before they have been discovered. Times, Sunday Times stinging insect However, visitors complain that they have been forced to play dodge the stinging insect as thousands of wasps pursued them round the park. Times, Sunday Times And there's that stinging insect with neon green eyes. Globe and Mail It looks somewhat like a drone honey bee, and likely gains some degree of protection from this resemblance to a stinging insect. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They rub stinging insects against their perch to remove the venom, but often eat the sting. Times, Sunday Times Wave after wave of the stinging insects swept through the compartment, flying into passengers' hair and faces. The Sun tiny insect It seemed unbelievable that a tiny insect bite could leave me like this. Times, Sunday Times For such a tiny insect (5mm-20mm), they are long-lived, surviving for up to eight years in laboratories. Times, Sunday Times The waste of it all was ferocious: every spoonful of food, every broken night, every pulled-up sock and new word taught - gone, in a second, because of one, tiny insect. Times, Sunday Times This tiny insect wreaks havoc in two simple ways. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Vernal migrations feature everything from fish and birds to big, shaggy mammals and tiny insects. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 trap an insect First he has to trap the insect, then he puts it into a chiller until it becomes lethargic. The Sun The draft law will also forbid insect traps that use lights and restrict the installation of street lamps and illuminated advertisements in nature reserves. Times,Sunday Times They have no teeth, but produce a large amount of sticky saliva to trap the insects, as well as backward-pointing spines on their tongues. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This was discovered accidentally when the predatory beetles and other enemies were attracted to insect traps baited with bark beetle pheromones. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Insect traps are sometimes used in pest management programs instead of pesticides but are more often used to look at seasonal and distributional patterns of pest occurrence. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 昆虫 Japanese: 昆虫
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