[
UK
/ˈɪnsɛkt/
]
[ US /ˈɪnˌsɛkt/ ]
[ US /ˈɪnˌsɛkt/ ]
NOUN
- small air-breathing arthropod
- a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect
How To Use insect In A Sentence
- I have sprayed them a couple of times with soapy water, which kills some of them but doesn't harm beneficial insects like ladybirds.
- Control of such sites is limited to biocontrol agents and would benefit from the establishment of local insectariums for rearing and releasing biocontrol insects.
- Egg-laying adults are especially active during bloom, a time period when insecticides should not be applied.
- Mycoinsecticides are fungal sprays that work on insect pests from the inside out.
- A turtle eating the insect that eats the leaf makes a chain of two.
- Zoophagous insects extract nutrients from a living animal host and represent a broad group of parasitic insects.
- A mantid is the most humanlike of insects; it has its eyes arranged so that it can see forward, allowing it depth perception. The Killing Kind
- In this course will be considered diphtheria, small-pox, the insect carriers of disease, typhoid fever, tuberculosis, and uncinariasis. The University of Virginia Record
- The insects are forming thick clouds near the ground, and they carpet the inside of the car when the doors are cracked open.
- Nectarines exhibit different reactions to specific insect attacks and fungal infections than do peaches.