| 单词 | insect |
| 例句 | Perhaps the most immediately useful result of this exploration of insect secretion is the development of lures, or attractants. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Then the bird started again, and some kind of buzzing insect and then a chattering and a cawing, and soon there was the same background of sound. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z They collected somewhere between thirty thousand and seventy thousand biting insects inside the cave—the cave is full of bugs. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z If Darwin were alive today the insect world would delight and astound him with its impressive verification of his theories of the survival of the fittest. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Maria also kept her eye out for any books concerning insects. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Then, its belly heavy with food, the snake slid on after the boy, only to stop again when it came to the insects. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Finn pulled a chunk from the post, exposing the smooth tunnels made by the insects. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z In Sheldon it was not only the wild creatures and the domestic companions that were sacrificed in the campaign against an insect. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The jewels and feathers glow like fluorescent insects in the darkness, and her brilliant hair sparkles under the lanterns. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z In contrast to chemicals, insect pathogens are harmless to all but their intended targets. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z His head was balding, and around the detailed crown of curls, he wore a circlet studded with large jeweled insects. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z “And I am Time,” said the clockwork creature, sinking into a graceful bow on its insect legs. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Its decline was largely a consequence of the importation of parasitic insects from the Far East and of the establishment of disease organisms fatal to it. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Insects have many natural enemies — not only microbes of many kinds but other insects. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Combinations of attractants and poisons are being tried against several insect species. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Though she did not know the scientific names of her insects—these species were unknown in Europe—she decided she did not really care. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Below, the Hound had sunk back down upon its eight incredible insect legs and was humming to itself again, its multi-faceted eyes at peace. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z After a few generations, instead of a mixed population of strong and weak insects, there results a population consisting entirely of tough, resistant strains. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z There was neither birdsong nor the hum of insects inside the sunken arena. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The first thing I want to tell you is this: They are older than dinosaurs, older than insects, older than trees or flowers or ferns or fungi or seeds. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z And from around the wagon stepped a large beetlelike insect dressed in a lavish coat, striped pants, checked vest, spats, and a derby hat. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z Most people hike from south to north with spring, ideally keeping one step ahead of the worst of the hot weather and the more irksome and infectious of insects. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps we may have noticed an oddly shaped insect of ferocious mien on a bush in the garden and been dimly aware that the praying mantis lives at the expense of other insects. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Raymie heard a rustle of something in the bushes, the hum of electricity from the streetlight, the buzz of insect wings. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z I tell Calvin, “Did you know that you have to listen for the insects?” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z Then he took a couple of nips from his silver flask, and we napped awhile as the insects buzzed and ticked and the dappled shade shifted around us. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The insects did not buzz around us, perhaps because the kerosene lamp was not on or perhaps because they sensed the tension. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Former colonists staggered back to Waltha after years in the bush, and Maria listened to their tales of tangled jungles and swarming insects. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The chief guardian and the other Council members ignored the outburst, as if it were merely an annoying insect that had finally been swatted away. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Lina felt as if a swarm of insects was inside her head, buzzing so loudly she couldn’t think. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The virus may have entered the cotton factory by some unknown route—perhaps in insects trapped in the cotton fibers, for example, or in rats that lived in the factory. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The loss of food has also struck hard at the swallows that cruise the skies, straining out the aerial insects as herring strain the plankton of the sea. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z There are said to be a billion billion insects on the earth at any moment, most of them with very short life expectancies by our standards. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z New chemicals were added, better spraying equipment was devised, and the zeal for spraying increased, but the insect problem did not get any better. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Various scientific studies have established the critical role of birds in insect control in various situations. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z "Not to be confused with Kung Fu Panda or the panda you had pictured in your mind. They only eat the most tender bamboo shoots, along with some insects and fruits." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z A magpie fluttered out of one of the rhododendron bushes growing near the house, and a couple of fat sparrows pecked busily at invisible insects in the gravel, but that was all. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Barely listening to the music, she watched the frenzy of insects flitting around the light, vying to kill themselves. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z You could hardly call that an insect, could you? James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z Though her approach was markedly different from the work of others who studied insects, she wanted her book to portray this interconnection—just as she had observed it every day on her walks. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Immediately a second is beside him, a black insect is caught between them and tries to escape—the airman. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes each rice shoot would be individually groomed with a bamboo comb to clear away insects. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Now clean cultivation and the chemical destruction of hedgerows and weeds are eliminating the last sanctuaries of these pollinating insects and breaking the threads that bind life to life. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z And however rapidly technology may invent new uses for insecticides and new ways of applying them, it is likely to find the insects keeping a lap ahead. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Dr. Pickett himself was a pioneer in the field of working out sane methods of insect control that take full advantage of the predatory and parasitic species. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I know about ovipositors, for laying eggs, on leaves, on caterpillars, on the surface of the water; they’re right out on the page, clearly labeled, on the diagrams of insects my father corrects at home. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z In 1915, Mother Nature added to blacks’ suffering when a tiny insect pest, the boll weevil, spread through the cotton crop, destroying the South’s major source of income. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z There were fewer insects buzzing, fewer birds singing, fewer rodents rustling. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z The truth, seldom mentioned but there for anyone to see, is that nature is not so easily molded and that the insects are finding ways to circumvent our chemical attacks on them. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The discovery did not come by chance: insects were widely used to test chemicals as agents of death for man. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z If those insects are fading and the first bolt is about to strike the tree, then all its power will come surging down that wire and anyone in contact with it will die. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z It was dark, and there were so many night sounds—of birds, animals, insects. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z The new biotic control of insects is not wholly a matter of electronics and gamma radiation and other products of man’s inventive mind. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z And Winnie, looking down, saw hosts of tiny insects skittering and skating on the surface. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z As I hurry toward the ladders at the far end of the warehouse, the sight of Messalla and one of the insects emerging from behind an air duct surprises me. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z I half expected to see the few remaining insects circling him and semaphoring their romantic intentions. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Inside, filaments of burnt bamboo perched like a black insect. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Out past the kitchen window, swifts swoop for insects, and the filaments of a spiderweb catch the light and shine for an instant and are gone. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z She moved quickly through the darkness, like an insect following a chemical trail. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z If the dead end is reached before control of disease-carrying insects is achieved, our situation will indeed be critical. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Some agricultural crops and many wild plants are partly or wholly dependent on the services of the native pollinating insects. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Yet the nature of many of the chemicals used against insects, rodents, and weeds is such that they may strike directly at this system, disrupting its beautifully functioning mechanism. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z There were trays of insects, too, which you could pull out from recesses in the walls. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Strips of cracked paint wrinkled away from the walls, like insects clinging to a nest. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Chemical control of insects seems to have proceeded on the assumption that the soil could and would sustain any amount of insult via the introduction of poisons without striking back. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z There are possibilities, too, that insects of medical importance might be controlled by sterilization. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Dr. Pickett uses special care to select chemicals that wiH do as little harm as possible to insect parasites and predators. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Men thin as insects rowed scows between the clumps, shepherding them with paddles, pressing down upon them, dousing them, drowning them, so that light might play unimpeded upon the winter sea. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z It has happened also because, for reasons to be described later, destructive insects often undergo a “flareback,” or resurgence, after spraying, in numbers greater than before. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The event was an opportunity to sweep the dust from Jaime’s lair and chase away the insects and cobwebs with a broom. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The air hummed with insects, and a cool breeze swept up from the river. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Frozen inside the gemstone was an ancient insect, stuck forever. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Every few minutes the insects' piercing whine is supplanted by the boom of distant thunder, rumbling over the taiga from a wall of thunderheads rearing darkly on the horizon. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z At that time it was believed that insecticides — then inorganic chemicals — would solve the problems of insect control, that the only task was to induce fruit growers to follow the recommended methods. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z And when we are kneeling, heads bowed slightly, I can hear from all around us a susurration, like the rustling of insects in tall dry grass: a cloud of whispers. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Under primitive agricultural conditions the farmer had few insect problems. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He kills thousands of harmless insects as well, including some that actually do good, such as bees that pollinate the flowers and give us honey. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Take an imaginary situation in which a population of a million insects is multiplying five times in each generation. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In spring there would be irritating insects to brush from his face, but there would be fresh, sweet berries then, too. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Each time we breach these defenses a horde of insects pours through. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Her words and artwork told fascinating, intertwined stories to a public still highly suspicious of insects. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He swatted too slowly for insect eye at the swarms around us. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z When I finally entered the planet’s atmosphere and began to descend toward the surface, it was like flying through a swarm of metal insects. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z All about, the forest spoke, sometimes sounds of animals, sometimes the white whirr of insect wings, sometimes only the trees shifting gently. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z She was Roger’s Lyra, full of grace and daring; she didn’t need to creep along like an insect. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z One major problem remained to be solved before it could be put to the test — a practical method of insect sterilization had to be found. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He slapped at it, expecting to see an insect. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Tayo nodded, slapped at the insects mechanically and staring straight ahead, past the smothering dampness of the green jungle leaves. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “Honeybees have a better sense of smell than other insects,” said Priscilla, “but a worse sense of taste.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Then it was the nighthawks that astonished him, those beautiful falcon-winged owl-colored birds, dashing after insects, beeping in a raspy, loud monotone. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A truly extraordinary variety of alternatives to the chemical control of insects is available. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The insects buzzed, whined, hummed, stridulated and droned as the air grew warmer in the sunset. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Here there were no chandeliers, no candles, or glass insects. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z So when he came flying into the living room on skates, I laughed it up so he’d feel a little better about my slipping him the insects. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z Academically, the fact that insects could be sterilized by exposure to X-ray had been known since 1916, when an entomologist by the name of G. A. Runner reported such sterilization of cigarette beetles. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The air above the dried-up stream was buzzing with insects, in the heat. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Yet most of the chemicals now used kill all insects, our friends and enemies alike. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Solid structures are set to vibrating by toothed bows in crustaceans and insects. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Human sweat transports them to a realm of orgasmic ecstasy, and insect repellent only seems to excite them further. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Large insects, like enormous walking sticks, were frozen on the trees. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Coming out of the woods was a glistening amber insect, tenfeetiong, with jagged pincers, an armored tail, and a stinger as long as my sword. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Even by the end of the second summer after spraying, only meager quantities of aquatic insects had reestablished themselves, and on one stream — formerly rich in bottom fauna — scarcely any could be found. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Nearly half a century ago, a professor of entomology at Washington State College, A. L. Melander, asked the now purely rhetorical question, “Can insects become resistant to sprays?” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z A single spider may destroy in her life of 18 months an average of 2000 insects. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The boy got up, but he darted along the path like a little insect, picking up bugs and rocks along the road and tossing sticks for Hushpuppy to chase. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Applied to seeds, either by soaking or in a coating combined with carbon, they extend their effects into the following plant generation and produce seedlings poisonous to aphids and other sucking insects. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Especially as spring came and the insects began their chains of reproduction; radiators became literally packed with insects, and birds flocked to the moving harvest. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z They were much too large to be insects. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Moreover, its encyclopedic Yearbook for 1952, which was devoted to insects, contained only one short paragraph on the fire ant out of its half-million words of text. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z And then he’d neatly label the insects with their Latin names. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The insect didn’t make a sound, and he sat perfectly still. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Immediately, the dog tried to herd the insects with his nose. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z The snakes slithered and the insects buzzed and the fish jumped up from the river. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Some rats ran off down the road, others hurled themselves into the ditch, pursued by the relentless, stinging insects. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z An insect is usually something rather small, is it not? James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z Then we started hearing loud snaps not far from us, almost like cap gun pops, that definitely weren’t insect noises. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z One, quicker than the rest, rushed into the firelight without hesitating, moving with the disturbing, sinuous speed of a scuttling insect. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z At first I didn’t see the soldiers at all—just a giant, swirling mass of insects, so dense it was opaque, about fifty feet down the footpath. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z She didn’t know if it itched from the rivulets of sweat or from the ants and other insects she spied among the squash. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z It is a world where the enchanted forest of the fairy tales has become the poisonous forest in which an insect that chews a leaf or sucks the sap of a plant is doomed. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z They found fruit in a haunt of bright little birds that hovered like insects. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z They swam across the pool to the sunny edge and sat there looking at him, snapping at the tiny insects that swarmed in the shade and grass around the pool. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z I stopped every few steps to brush the bugs off, and when I did I’d see Otto, dozens of feet above me, dealing with his own problem insects by eating them. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z On many study areas aquatic insects and other stream-bottom fauna were reduced to a tenth of their normal populations. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The dirt is clumpy and dry, drilled through with the paths of insects like an abandoned ant farm. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Others plod methodically along a stem, plucking off and devouring sedentary insects like the aphids. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Above them, a quartet of swallows dipped and circled, twittering madly as they plunged after insects. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Sleep didn’t come, couldn’t come with the insects ripping at him, so he lay the rest of the night, slapping mosquitos and chewing with his mind on die day. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z At a time when most scholars were trying to separate the natural world into categories, Maria insisted on finding connections—between life stages, between insect and plant, between art and science. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z His whisper comes in her left ear; his breath smells like crushed insects. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z There are rats everywhere, hollowing the sweetest stalks, and insects too numerous to swat. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z She could no longer hear the buzzing of cruel insect wings. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z He shows me a forearm full of insect bites. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z It would have protected him from the cold, the rain, the wind, and the insects. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z It didn’t look sturdy enough to carry him, but he knew some insects, like ants, could carry many times their weight. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z There’s only a faint insect click here and there. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Chaos erupted—screams, gunfire, shoving—though I could hardly hear it over the roar of the insects, which seemed to fill not just my ears but every pore of my body. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Mostly, nobody bothered to find out where insects came from. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The temperature had disturbed the insects, and a cloud of midges made every outline hazy. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The insects, possibly excited by the smell of blood, have increased their clicking until it’s a continuous roar in my ears. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z These insects, so essential to our agriculture and indeed to our landscape as we know it, deserve something better from us than the senseless destruction of their habitat. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Slant, hands red and wet with sores, stood shirtless in the pond, great masses of insects swarming about him. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z I huddled under my blankets when Pan Am and United Air Lines planes flew overhead, the engines sounding like insects at first and getting louder and louder. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Moths and tiny flying insects drifted out of the cave mouth, carried in a steady, cool flow of air. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A lot of people come by to talk to me, but I make all their words sound like the clicking of the insects in the jungle. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z It must be close if they think they can outdistance the furious insects. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Fishes of the southern states have also suffered heavily from insecticides used against cotton insects. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Others criticized her lack of insect classification and the seemingly haphazard organization of her books. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The field was alive with the whine of insects, and briefly, that’s all we could hear. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The feeding habits of all these birds not only make them especially vulnerable to insect sprays but also make their loss a deplorable one for economic as well as less tangible reasons. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Her skinny bare legs glistened with insect repellent. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z The insects were much worse than on the beaches. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z To protect himself from the many biting and stinging insects, Roosevelt wore a head net and long gloves so he could write about the expedition at the end of each day. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z No traffic came along the dirt road, and it was quiet except for the crickets in the rocks and a few evening insects buzzing past his face; in the distance dogs were barking. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Pantalaimon changed into a swallow and flew through, delighting in the open air, and then snapped up an insect before darting back through to Lyra’s shoulder again. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Not only the target insect or plant, but anything — human or nonhuman — within range of the chemical fallout may know the sinister touch of the poison. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “And furthermore,” continued the proclamation, “The boy named Milo,” “The dog known as Tock,” “And the insect hereinafter referred to as the Humbug,” “Are hereby declared to be,” “Heroes of the realm.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z Potato insects are escaping chemical control in many sections of the United States. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It contained pictures of the strangest of insects: beetles with horns, beetles with proboscises—one even had a proper nose. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z He gazed into the silver-green-gold shadows, and listened, with both hands behind his ears to catch and focus any quiet voices through the insect chirping and the trickle of the stream. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I can still hear the insects, but are they starting to fade? Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z There were insects in Georgetown, alarming numbers of them, buzzing and whirring in the evening air like little helicopters. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Apart from the lodestone resonator, the most important items were a pair of insect larvae, and their food. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z In each case the birds dine on the insects that would otherwise bother the herbivore. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z It was almost as if it had quivered, though there it was, quite still, poised with a strange energy on those six insect legs. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Maria could visit libraries full of scholarly works and seek out fellow insect scholars, collectors, and artists. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Glass boxes with snakes and lizards and insects. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Now, everything was revealed by the sun, birds and insects scuttered about, the whole place was alive. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z The hopeful question is sometimes asked, “If insects can become resistant to chemicals, could human beings do the same thing?” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Do small stupid insect not be made by God? Do small mean bad?” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Scientists in Czechoslovakia are experimenting with protozoa against webworms and other insect pests, and in the United States a protozoan parasite has been found to reduce the egg- laying potential of the corn borer. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I've looked at fungus and insect infestation for him in the past. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z There were paths leading here and there among the lamp-hung oleander trees, but not a sound of life could be heard: no night birds singing, no insects, nothing but Will’s own footsteps. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Everywhere, in field and hedgerow and garden and forest, the insect predators and parasites are at work. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Boyle, for example, could place a lit candle in his globe, or a bird; although insects and frogs could be passed through the mercury into the Torricellian space, flames and birds could not. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z To make certain that we shall at all times be prepared to repel insects, an exclusive New York store advertises a pocket-sized insecticide dispenser, suitable for the purse or for beach, golf, or fishing gear. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Infestations of the scale insect quickly reappeared and damage exceeded anything that had been seen for fifty years. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The truck’s headlights catch tire tracks and prairie grass and insects weaving back and forth. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z “The insect world is nature’s most astonishing phenomenon,” said the Dutch biologist C. J. Briejer. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Not only did a lot of Marines get malaria, there was also this disease carried by insects that made your arms and legs swell up. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Everything was curved to fit the walls—the stove, the sink, and the cupboards—and all of it had been painted with flowers, insects, and birds in bright primary colors. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Though she hunted through scores of insect collections and handled innumerable specimens, no one could give her the answers she sought. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The Hippogriff burrows for insects but will also eat birds and small mammals. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z However, even amid the nearly constant biting and stinging insects, the men made headway with the portage, finishing it in two days. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Although Constance yawned and scratched at an insect bite on her ankle, no one else moved or spoke a word. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Because they are dark, they are almost always quite moist, thereby attracting the standard insect and alligator community that prefers a moist climate. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The robot would tell stories of annoying pinecones and terrible storms and camouflaged insects. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z All were masked as insects, identical to one another. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Her stepfather prized insects as models and sent Maria outside to capture them. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z After a time in solitary, I relished the company even of the insects in my cell, and found myself on the verge of initiating conversations with a cockroach. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Therefore, Marburg lived in some other kind of host—an insect? a rat? a spider? a reptile? The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They saw nothing, they heard nothing, only the insects and the noise of the wind. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Later I would discover that they eat a variety of insects and sometimes hunt and kill prey animals to feed on meat. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z All in all, she created sixty life-size scenes, depicting ninety new insect metamorphoses and fifty-three species of plants. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z She hoped her book would be enjoyed as a work of art, but she also hoped it would help the average person understand—and thus better appreciate—the insect world. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He sat in a slotted swing on his porch, rocking in his brown three-piece, his wide Panama nodding in time with the whir of insects. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Within its vegetative rods there are formed, along with spores, peculiar crystals composed of a protein substance highly toxic to certain insects, especially to the larvae of the mothlike lepidopteras. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In spite of this, when he thrust his hands into the new opening, some of the insects were alert enough to sting. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Knipling has pointed out that effective chemical insect sterilization “might easily outdo some of the best of known insecticides.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Wings flared and rabidly desperate insect legs dug into Ben’s palm for leverage. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of the insects that defy chemical control are thought to be aided by a structural advantage, but there seems to be little actual proof of this. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Then in the Clarkston area of Washington the insects became refractory — they were harder to kill than in the orchards of the Wenatchee and Yakima valleys and elsewhere. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Birds left the barrio, and insects disappeared into hidden cracks and crevices, taking their songs. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Nor was she merely an “enthusiast”—one who captured, pinned, and collected insects as trophies. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z They eat small animals, insects, certain cactus thorns, and the shells of sunflower seeds. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z But even small insects like us knew that ‘Captain’ was not a very exalted rank and only a man with little else to boast about would hang on to it in civilian life. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z And there was life everywhere—zumming insects, squirrels scampering along boughs, birds twittering and hopping about, spider webs gleaming silver in the sun. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z But now, only a few night birds and insects broke the silence—crickets, an owl, some other bird I had no name for. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “Electric...that’s like electrum. That’s a kind of stone, a jewel, made out of gum from trees. There’s insects in it, sometimes.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z By the river, a chorus of whistling frogs joined the clamor of insects. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z While the DDT had killed off all stream insects the year before, the smallest of the insects — the midges and blackflies — had returned in numbers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z One at a time, the insects hopped out of the box, jumped through the chain- link holes, and landed on the ground. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Stream insects, the natural food of trout, had disappeared. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Imps eat small insects and have breeding habits much like the fairies, though imps do not spin cocoons; the young are hatched fully formed at around one inch in length. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z All I could hear was the drone of insects. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Great insects, angry and buzzing over the steaming jungle, ignoring the fact that every hostile in the area was trying to bring them down. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The Dutch physician Jan Swammerdam dissected countless insect specimens to help dispel the notion that each phase of an insect was a completely different species of animal. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Her eyes were sharp yellow, her skin was soft brown, she was thin and quick as an insect. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z It is an African insect that burrows under the skin of the feet. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z In his mouth, which seemed to rest in a permanent half smile, hid a long, sticky tongue that slurped up insects in an eyeblink. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z I have been threatened with axes, chainsaws, diseases, and insects. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z It looked like I was staring into the compound lens on the eye of an insect. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z So, as well as reading about those faraway animals, I also watched the wild creatures near my home—squirrels and birds and all kinds of insects. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z The hum of those insects and the twisting limbs of the live oaks stayed with us long after we'd gone north again, beating in us almost like a second heart. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z This could be done with the screw-worm, which is actually not an abundant insect. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Tests to duplicate this one success also failed until a colleague of his on the commission, James Carroll, caught the disease from an infected insect and nearly died. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z She scratched an insect bite on her arm, unrolled a sheaf of paper, and leaned against the wooden wagon of Mr. Percival Derby, owner of Derbyshire Farms. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z I say, “Well, you have your good insects and your bad ones. And you want to keep your spraying down. Or not at all.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z This insect infests about a third of Africa, posing a menace to human health and preventing the keeping of livestock in an area of some 4% million square miles of wooded grasslands. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It was lovely music too, with little tunes that sounded like insects hopping around and having a grand time. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Flowers withered, insects shriveled, and fish died in their tanks. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Aside from the usual insects and the well-publicized starving people in India, we failed to see any potential takers. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Cells were filthy, bedding was unwashed, the food often contained worms and insects. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The insect stepped aside daintily to avoid a rivulet of sweat, for the air was hot and close in the forge. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Milo’s eyes were liquid with integrity, and his artless and uncorrupted face was lustrous with a shining mixture of sweat and insect repellent. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z She didn’t like discomfort; even picnics were untidy and inconvenient: all those insects and the sun melting the icing on the cupcakes. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z His shoulder hit the angel’s, and knocked Balthamos off balance; and in throwing out a hand to save himself, the angel let go of the insect dæmon. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Thousands of insects beat the air to a pulpy soup of animal panic. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “The study of insects is called ‘entomology,’” Mrs. V said. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z The drone of the summer insects and grasshoppers made me sleepy. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z A pitcher, overturned on a table, lay in a puddle of some thick liquid through which insects crawled. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “This milk is a bacterial stew. That’s why the insects like it so well.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The insects had shifted easily to let Boots by, but they were an obstacle course for him. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She simply wanted to capture these small communities of insects and plants interacting with one another, just as she had witnessed them. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z From that time on one could search for days among the orange groves without finding a single scale insect. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z She’d gotten the idea from the stick insect, but Roz quickly realized that camouflaging herself as a twig was out of the question. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Gradually the dirt that had collected on the insect fell away. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe: they secrete chemicals the way insects do, or perhaps the movements of their eyestalks is a form of language similar to the dance of a bee. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z There were no insects singing, there were no catbirds, or orioles, or vireos, or robins. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z If we are troubled by mosquitoes, chiggers, or other insect pests on our persons we have a choice of innumerable lotions, creams, and sprays for application to clothing or skin. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The whining of the millions of insects intensified, rattling the windows overlooking the alley. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z While certain insects overran us, some of the other normal inhabitants of our property, such as earthworms, disappeared. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z But there were dozens—no, hundreds of the insects—so many that soon I couldn’t see the two girls anymore. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z But in the end, if he were a betting man, he says, he’d put his money on the insects. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The only sound was the wind over the flood, except for a tiny insect buzz that came and went. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z His eyelids were red and swollen, and there was a huge insect bite on the side of his neck. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z The spadefoot toads and turtles and slithering creatures, the chattering of black insects. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z And a book called Insect Societies by Edmund O. Wilson that linked human behavior to animals from apes to insects. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Dead fish and gooey vegetable matter were exposed and rotted, while swarms of insects droned in the heavy, humid air. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z These insects were a nuisance, but not dangerous—until they bit a person who’d come aboard with the virus. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Kind of like when we used to play insect torture. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The golden domes that arched above their heads kept their splendor hidden in the gloom, and in between the tall marble pillars that supported them the boys felt as small as insects. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Was that a swarm of insects coming her way? Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Maria herself credited some of Amsterdam’s famous insect collectors for aiding her investigations. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He abhorred the idea of eating live worms or dead insects. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The words in the caption look insect bristly. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he glanced down at his forefinger, crawling with flies, and popped it in his mouth and sucked the buzzing insects off. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z In America, farmers have repeatedly traded one insect enemy for a worse one as spraying upsets the population dynamics of the insect world. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The science of range management has largely ignored this possibility, although these insects are perhaps the most selective of all grazers and their highly restricted diets could easily be turned to man’s advantage. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Her wrists and ankles were raw where the skin had been worn away, and insects swarmed around the oozing wounds. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z As he opened the door to go out, a large black insect flew in. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z The lieutenant hadn’t even mentioned them, but we had been given a supply of insect repellent. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Immediately the traffic on the road resumed, even the animals and insects contributing activity. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z In addition, of course, small domestic mammals and domestic birds and insects have also been useful to humans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Regular soil is a crazy mix of everything from fine rock fragments to water, air, insects, and even bacteria and fungi. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Another insect to learn the profitable way of resistance was the codling moth, or appleworm, in the 1920’s, although lead arsenate had been used successfully against it for some 40 years. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I felt embarrassed, being told insect morals by my baby sister. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In the waters below, their young, the dragonfly nymphs, or naiads, prey on the aquatic stages of mosquitoes and other insects. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z As the light grew dimmer, the noises of evening began—the buzz of insects, the rustling of dry leaves, and another sound ... voices? A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The quiet was profound except for the incessant buzzing of insects and the occasional chirrup of some hardy bird, braving the midday sun. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z He moved up the stream and away from the wood, holding the scratching, stinging, biting insect dæmon, and trying to conceal himself as much as he could from the man who was stumbling after them. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z All of the sentinel animals remained healthy, and the blood and tissue samples from the other animals, insects, birds, Masai people, and their cattle showed no signs of Marburg virus. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There were always books at home where I could look up the names of the different insects or birds we found. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Thus it is no accident that our most troublesome insects are introduced species. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I said, “Hi,” but did not get up, just lay still listening to the birds, the snips and sputs of insects moving in the dry leaves, and the air stirring the newly leafing trees. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Birds, insects—there was a constant hum and song. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z The Lady flew down and perched her insect on Will’s hand. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z There were the sounds of insects, a constant chirping. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z If antibacterial soap creates super germs like they say, what if toxic tenting creates super insects? Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z It made Coraline think of some kind of enormous dead insect. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z “Have I nothing better to do than cure insect bites for ‘little Indians’? The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Word spread of her insect collections, and interest grew. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Once clear and cool, the water was now dark brown, clogged with dead insects, and it smelled of kinds of filth he could only guess at. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z We put down our packs and Papa asked us to help him make a fire to keep away the animals and insects. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I look at the insect cameramen, perspiration pouring from under their equipment. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z He gave up trying to remember directions and concentrated on keeping up with the insects. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Much of it was damply rotten and full of insects that scurried; logs had to be lined from the soil with care or they crumbled into sodden powder. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z From somewhere far away there floated the faint shouts of children; in the room itself there was no sound except the insect voice of the clock. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Most of the time, though, nothing more alarming than insects disturbed my vigils on the Peak. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z The wind no longer rustled the leaves, the car no longer squeaked, and the insects no longer buzzed in the fields. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z Were insects just early forms of completely different animals? The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Herbie slapped his cheek, squashed an insect that was punching a hole in his ear, then brushed three more off his arm. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “From youth on I have been occupied with the investigation of insects.” The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The woods were full of unpredictable happenings—snapping creatures, falling branches, stinging insects. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Others would not come out and so they burned: small flame-feathered birds, the churning insects, and a few female baboons who had managed against all odds to carry their pregnancies through the drought. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z His eyelashes tremble like the wings of tiny insects. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Unable to drive them away, Cole felt the huge insects bite him. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z There were sounds in the world now, too: insects were stirring, and a very slight breeze was rustling the dry grass stems growing higher up the dune. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z One is that the cost of insect control by chemicals is increasing steadily. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It was a machine like a jade-green insect, a praying mantis, delicately rushing through the cold air, indistinct, countless green diamonds winking over its body, and red jewels that glittered with multifaceted eyes. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The summer food of the white-breasted nuthatch and the brown creeper, for example, includes the eggs, larvae, and adults of a very large number of insects injurious to trees. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z By 500 million years ago there were vast herds of trilobites, beautifully constructed animals, a little like large insects; some hunted in packs on the ocean floor. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Other scientists are working on the so-called “juvenile hormone,” a powerful substance which prevents metamorphosis of the larval insect until the proper stage of growth has been reached. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z At the time she began her insect studies, Maria’s “database” consisted of bookshops where she might browse any rare works about insects, or studio paintings like her stepfather’s that accurately depicted them. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z There is only plunging night and owls calling from the trees and bats straining insects above a roadside ditch. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I do not think life anywhere else would look very much like a reptile, or an insect or a human— even with such minor cosmetic adjustments as green skin, pointy ears and antennae. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Tialys did the same with his, easing the straps around the insect’s body, tightening, adjusting. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Almost immediately DDT was hailed as a means of stamping out insect- borne disease and winning the farmers’ war against crop destroyers overnight. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Their faces, arms, and legs became hardened with insect bites and scratches. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z And Kalinda and I, maybe we’ve been alive too long too, and the only animals on this Earth who really understand life are the insects who are born and mate and die within seconds. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The social insects are like this; they move, and live all their lives, in a mass; a beehive is a spherical animal. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z There was also the night at the deli, when I'd been bitten and stung by insects, and the day when I'd been beaten up at the docks. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, it is important to realize that chemical spraying of forest insects is neither the only way nor the best way. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Some insects of bolder inventiveness have devised personal refrigeration systems. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Amsterdam was home to fantastic collections of animals and insects from all over the world, and to gardens and hothouses full of exotic plants. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Some are deliberately applied to bodies of water to destroy plants, insect larvae, or undesired fishes. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The windows had no glass, just flaps of gunnysack strung up in a futile attempt to keep out the insects. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Any wound makes it harder to fight off disease and insects. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The air shimmered with flowers, birds, and insects, but the dense heat suffocated. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The shelves closed in on the car like a monster insect folding in its wings. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Rough voices, thin as an insect’s whine, were cast across the black river, the dark town, the shapes of ships on the water. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z All this is not to say there is no insect problem and no need of control. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Neumann One’s vibrating leg shakes the truck lightly, and the sun flares through the remnants of insects smeared across the windows, and a cold wind sets the whole field rustling. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Only the sounds of insects determined on their late spring business, and birdsong resuming after a decent pause. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z So it is that the activities of the insect predators and parasites are known to few. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Finally, there were the relentless insects, the unsettling sense of isolation, and the ever-taxing terrain. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Swarms of crane flies, one of the few insects that can survive the cold, darkened the tips of the mosses. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z How could a dead thing, especially a dead insect, have a voice? Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z “What kind of insect is good at math?” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z Holding his discovery as carefully as his fingers could, Mario lifted the insect up and rested him in the palm of his hand. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z There will be nothing left but enormous insects the size of dinosaurs. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z At best, she looked like a boy; at worst, like an insect. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z In 1920 Australian entomologists were sent to North and South America to study insect enemies of the prickly pears in their native habitat. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It was not only their numbers; there was also something insectlike about the clicking, whirring sound of their wings. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z They removed insects from the tomatoes, mealies, squash and pumpkins and fed them to bantam chickens penned at the mouths of the tunnels. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z A pensive stillness passed while they listened to the hushed chirr of insects in the trees that surrounded the cemetery like an embrace. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z This is done with the purpose of killing insects that may come in contact with them, especially by sucking their juices or blood. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Both of these examples suggest that extremely effective control of many kinds of unwanted vegetation might be achieved by paying more attention to the role of plant-eating insects. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z This is a tropical or subtropical insect, inhabiting South and Central America and Mexico, and in the United States normally restricted to the Southwest. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In the United States our foresters seem to have thought of biological control chiefly in terms of introducing insect parasites and predators. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I don’t know everything about that girl, but I do know that she has a lot more to worry about than an insect on a train. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z The people, thousands of them, crept forward, their limbs stretching, elongating as they limped and crawled and skittered like insects. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z More birds on a farm mean fewer insects. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z This meant that passengers and crew were trapped on board with successive generations of diseased insects. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z We lay there together, sweating in the sun, listening to the birds make their rapid calls over the drone of the insects, to the singing coming from the farmers from the nearby village. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “And sometimes insects get caught in it, and over millions of years the amber turns into a gemstone, but it traps the insect inside.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z A book about moths, for instance, might be under “M” for moths, or “I” for insects, or “B” for bugs. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I could hear the rustling of birds and insects and other creatures settling into the evening. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z In their home ecosystems these species have, like all living things, a full complement of parasites, microbes, viruses, and insect predators to shorten and immiserate their lives. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Probably because it was the first generally practiced method of biological control, this setting of one insect against another is widely but erroneously thought to be the only alternative to chemicals. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Yet awareness of the fact that insects possess an effective counterweapon to aggressive chemical attack seems to have dawned slowly. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Though exhausted, ill, and anxious about the voyage ahead, they carried evidence of a vast, teeming, interconnected ecosystem of plants and insects, the likes of which the great European academies had never seen. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He imagined the hornet turning on Deacon Hurd, and the general melee as he ran down the aisle, chased by the eager insect, hollering and swatting at the thin air. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z She got off her board several times to inspect the flowers, looking for insects or anything else that might match the words “firebug eyes.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The list of diseases and their insect carriers, or vectors, includes typhus and body lice, plague and rat fleas, African sleeping sickness and tsetse flies, various fevers and ticks, and innumerable others. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I lie awake for a long time, listening to insects and little creeping creatures. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Even Butler, the consummate professional, was beginning to dread the long nights of dampness and insect bites. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Yet no one seems to have proposed “eradicating” these insects. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In most cases, however, her paintings are so precise and lifelike that even today they could be used as a field guide to European and Surinamese insects. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z She leafed through her study book, crammed with sketches of insects painted from life on scraps of vellum. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Ladybugs or lady beetles are among the most effective destroyers of aphids, scale insects, and other plant-eating insects. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The first cases of DDT resistance among agricultural insects appeared in the United States in 1951, about six years after its first use. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The smell of disinfectant, mingled with that of insect repellent, hung in the air. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It was then approaching evening and Brian knew they would need a shelter of some kind and a fire, before dark and the evening horde of insects found them. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z The giant exploded into a roaring hurricane of insects and rammed the front windows. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Human populations reproduce at the rate of roughly three generations per century, but new insect generations arise in a matter of days or weeks. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The creatures had six arms each, three sprouting on either side, so they looked like cavemen evolved from insects. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The first is that the really effective control of insects is that applied by nature, not by man. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Disease-carrying insects become important where human beings are crowded together, especially under conditions where sanitation is poor, as in time of natural disaster or war or in situations of extreme poverty and deprivation. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Sparks lifted up from the fire like tiny orange insects, zigzagged into the air, and vanished. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z They heard a scuffle of monkeys feeding in the trees, a hum of insects, an occasional low huh-huh call of a monkey. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Give him some mashed-up grass. And if a few insects get in there, all the better.” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Over a dozen insects were already smeared on the white wall when he let Meggie out into the corridor. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z About 1950, Dr. Knipling launched a serious effort to turn insect sterilization into a weapon that would wipe out a major insect enemy of livestock in the South, the screw-worm fly. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Malaria, starvation, Indian attacks, and vicious bites from piranhas, snakes, and insects were all part of the job. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Only by taking account of such life forces and by cautiously seeking to guide them into channels favorable to ourselves can we hope to achieve a reasonable accommodation between the insect hordes and ourselves. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The nymph here, perched on an open flower, is an inaccurate combination of these two insects, which locals assured her were related. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z If they were going to miss his rants and all his knowledge about random animals and insects, and if Shelly would be able to spot a bedbug like he had taught her. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “During war, government said must eat insect to survive. Also, it will give you energy because grasshopper have many energy. They have almost as much energy as me when I your age, Aki.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z When the adult insects emerged, they would be more like dragonflies than anything else, but they were not like any kind of dragonfly that the humans of Will’s world, or Lyra’s, would have seen before. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z And so we pressed on to Monson, over hard trail and more rivers, collecting bruises and scratches and insect bites that turned our backs into relief maps. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Throughout much of the Midwest thousands of acres of fine orchards were destroyed by insects now impervious to spraying. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The ground was dark, and finding the insects was like trying to pick pepper off a black cloth. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z They climbed not over but through the sun-red grass, among the awakened insect movement and the light ablaze. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z In the pre-DDT era, inorganic chemicals, applied on a scale that today would seem extraordinarily modest, produced here and there strains of insects that could survive chemical spraying or dusting. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Caesar and Cora listened to the insects as the enormity of their plan moved over them. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Most of the divers just looked like insects, indistinguishable in their masks and regulators, but there was one shot that felt human. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z It was filled with nature notes, drawings of insect anatomy, and other such things. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Honeybees are social insects and live in colonies. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The red puccoon dye protects my back, chest, arms, and legs from insects and the burning of the sun, and my moccasins protect my feet for running. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z They found some slight relief from the biting insects—as long as the canoes were in constant motion. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Some insect, maybe a grasshopper or worm, found its way to the center of the chicken run and all the chickens went crazy pecking, flapping, and scratching to get at it. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z She moved with the quick steps of a thief, or a blackbird hunting insects, so sure and elegant that Tanin’s breath caught in her throat. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Some of its methods have ancient roots, based on the knowledge that, like ourselves, insects are subject to disease. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In short, she was quietly engaged in some of the finest insect work of her time. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Then in the 1940’s the citrus growers began to experiment with glamorous new chemicals against other insects. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z They went there a few days after Zeitoun’s release from prison and found only mud and insects. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Some of the most fascinating control work in European forests employs the forest red ant as an aggressive insect predator — a species which, unfortunately, does not occur in North America. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z California searches vehicles for vegetables and fruits which might carry pernicious insects and diseases, and regulations of these are enforced with almost religious intensity. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z But my mind shows me that insect in that train car. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z He thought to shake the insect off, but did not want to interrupt the procedure he was performing. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z So too did the tiny insects that crawled upon them: the beetles and wasps, the bees that floated from blossom to blossom. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Guards, though, did not care if Shin and his friends ate rats, frogs, snakes, and insects. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z About three quarters of the food of the chickadee is animal, including all stages of the life cycle of many insects. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I read books about animals, and I watched the birds and insects in the garden. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z But eventually the hole healed, widened with the help of insects, and now, about four feet off the ground, I have a deep oval hollow. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z But the spit made me feel like an insect. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z Even more extraordinary in their habits are the parasitic insects. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Out in the field, Brown collapsed in a cloud of stinging insects. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The insects had made a meal out of their feet, causing them to swell up painfully. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z It was a sweltering morning in July, and drops of sweat crawled down her back one by one, like slow insects. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z He loped steadily along, and the swarms of midges and stinging insects could not penetrate his matted hair. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, though, the new hybrids are almost always more vulnerable to disease and insects than older varieties. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The insects swung around him in a great, whirling sphere. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The Gallivespians bred these creatures carefully, and each clan’s insects differed from the rest. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Everyone else seems brain-dashed and busy at the same time, like dazed insects coming out after the storm. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “I was stung by a bee when I was eight years old, and since then I’ve been a little timid about insects.” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Such a system set the stage for explosive increases in specific insect populations. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The stick insect’s body was long and thin. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z She pointed to a photograph of a desiccated insect with a stick emerging from its corpse—it was gross, but kind of fascinating, too. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z In return for shelter, the ants attack anything that touches the tree—insect, bird, unwary writer. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Leave this kind of life to the insects and birds, and lesser mammals, and fish. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In the silence between them the buzz of insects in the hot summer air seemed to crescendo: thousands of tiny wings beating. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The next day at school, Mr. Chang starts science class with a chapter on insects. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z In the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, a famous apple-growing region, hordes of a small insect called the red-banded leaf roller arose to plague the growers as soon as DDT began to replace arsenate of lead. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z There’s no way the insect shells will be able to fit through the narrow passage. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Suddenly the insect within the globe shone with a light that was so bright and intense that it hurt my eyes, and I cried out. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z But it turned out that Hanako’s grandparents had discovered this afternoon that the wheat was being attacked by insects, so they did not think they could go to Kobe. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The predatory insects of field and forests play the same role as the wolves and coyotes of the Kaibab. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z So far in this chapter we have been discussing the deadly chemicals that are being used in our war against the insects. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He felt ashamed, and when he went out for walks he hunched his shoulders, wanting to be as invisible as an insect with diaphanous wings. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Thankfully Matthias noted that she refrained from putting worms and dead insects on his portion. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Dead and dying insects of various species were conspicuous for about two weeks after the treatment. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But only two states listed it among their 20 most important insect pests, and these placed it near the bottom of the list. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z All the announcers were talking about the remarkable insect who was delighting throngs in the Times Square subway station. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z The sky was the color of the blush on peaches, and insect language whirred in the sweet meadow grass. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The relation between various insects and many diseases of man is an ancient one. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z We can polish our floors with a wax guaranteed to kill any insect that walks over it. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Cautiously the insect lifted his head to the chocolate. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Where they occur, insect control measures that favor a vast increase of snails are likely to be followed by grave consequences. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Maybe not. It might live in an insect, and insects don’t have lungs. But you see here how Ebola has adapted to this lung. It’s budding out of the lung, right straight into the air.” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Then this vital force is merely smoldering, awaiting the time to flare again into activity when spring awakens the insect world. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It is intensely shy, nests in bramble and thorn, eats large insects and fairies, flies only in heavy rain and otherwise remains hidden in its tear-shaped nest. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z We sit on the porch in the evening and listen to the insects chitter like the fever of our drained, exhausted Earth. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Stokum, inventor of the then new and improved Red Stokum wheat, a hearty fall strain which was more resistant to insects and cold than any other wheat at the time. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Frantic winged insects flitted around the electric bulb. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z No insect was beyond her scope of interest. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z From all sides comes the whir of tiny wings, which I used to confuse with the sound of insects in our woods at home. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z It is not yet clear what they accomplish for the insect, but it is known that the species cannot survive long without them. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Maria quickly adopted the local Arawak-Dutch dialect, asking her native servants for information about both insects and plants. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I pulled my scarf off and sat down next to Aunty Ifeoma, watching the insects crowd around the lamps. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Beyond the ring of their firelight, there was nothing except animal sounds and insects, the black wildness of the jungles and swamps, the swelter of the interior. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z So the rest of us wouldn’t be plagued by insects, Hugh, the boy who had bees living in his stomach, ate under a large mosquito net at a table for one in the corner. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Lady got her share of the poison when she ate the birds who had eaten the DDT-killed insects in Chile. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z When later there is a resurgence of the insect population, as almost always happens, the birds are not there to keep their numbers in check. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Around us sang the chorus of insects which had just worked their way out of winter nests and cocoons. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He was forced to endure the unwelcome attention of inquisitive flies and insects that buzzed about and walked across him at their leisure. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The buzzing insects, the wet sweat, and the hot dry dust made the afternoon seem to last forever. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Even the birds had quieted, like they’d gone to bed for the night, and the sound of insects was barely noticeable, or at least much less than normal. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z If understanding of the phenomenon of insect resistance developed slowly, it was far otherwise with resistance itself. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The insects buzzed round his ears and suddenly a little cloud of flies flew up, disturbed from a projecting stone. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Maria was on her own when it came to the insects, however. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The white-eyed or sable-bodied flies that Morgan and his students had discovered in New York had been fished out laboriously by hunting through massive flocks of insects over thirty years. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Typical targets were women on the edges of society who exhibited odd behaviors such as talking to animals, wandering the countryside at night, or hoarding insects. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “The greatest single factor in preventing insects from overwhelming the rest of the world is the internecine warfare which they carry out among themselves,” said the entomologist Robert Metcalf. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z As he said that, a few of the colorful insects flapped lazily around his head, almost as if summoned. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The brilliant success of the screw-worm campaign has stimulated tremendous interest in applying the same methods to other insects. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Aristotle declared that most insects did not come from other insects, but from dew, dung, dead animals, or mud. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z But what happens in nature is not allowed to happen in the modern, chemical-drenched world, where spraying destroys not only the insects but their principal enemy, the birds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The witch’s spell did not cover the blood that must have spilled, and insects and the sun and the wind had dispersed it completely. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He lay in the high barn loft all night, listening to distant animals and insects and trees, the little motions and stirrings. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Hiding behind her skirts was a very small boy—about three or four years old—who clung to her leg like a little insect. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Kermit, who was not only suffering from insect bites but also from another outbreak of boils, still managed to help. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z All things in the woods, from insects to fish to bears, were always, always looking for food—it was the great, single driving influence in nature, lo eat. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly the air surrounding him was abuzz with stinging insects. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z It was too quiet; they couldn’t even hear the sound of insects. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The monkey shrieks and birdcalls, the insect scrapings and frog croakings, and the incessant drip-drip of condensing moisture sounded very loud to Will, outside it. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Let somebody bring out the honey and the insect kingdom will be there in no time. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z About a quarter of a century ago Dr. Knipling startled his colleagues by proposing a unique method of insect control. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Calves came from cows and birds hatched from eggs, but insects? The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z As she gathered live insects, she noted which plants shed found them on. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z She stretched out her chubby arms to the giant insects. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Some microbes don’t wait for the old host to die and get eaten, but instead hitchhike in the saliva of an insect that bites the old host and flies off to find a new host. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z These young fed voraciously, seeking out the strange and varied insect life of the stream. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “We have a few milking cows. They make plenty of milk, so I put out some of the excess for the insects. Keeps the garden lively.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z And although it hardly seemed possible, the insects were fiercer here, too. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Archaeologists have discovered on even the tiniest islands evidence of the existence of birds, insects and snails that lived there for countless generations, only to vanish when the first human farmers arrived. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Birds are more easily killed by radiation than insects. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z No one connected various phases of insects to one another, and no one knew where to fit them into the natural order. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It is a highly specific organism, attacking no other type of insects, harmless to earthworms, warm-blooded animals, and plants. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The writers of books on insect behavior generally take pains, in their prefaces, to caution that insects are like creatures from another planet, that their behavior is absolutely foreign, totally unhuman, unearthly, almost unbiological. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Not only do these areas receive the contaminated discharge of rivers but all too commonly they are sprayed directly in efforts to control mosquitoes or other insects. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z They also pick insect larvae and parasites out of the animal’s droppings. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Many Herbs, shrubs, and trees of forests and range depend on native insects for their reproduction; without these plants many wild animals and range stock would find little food. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z There was a sudden surge in insect activity both inside the house and out. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The insect dug furiously in the sand, found nothing, and scurried on. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Her campaign against insects seemed sensible and useful. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z The insects and tree frogs, Stella figured, had tucked themselves into some muddy place, just trying to keep warm. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Also, as Dr. Steinhaus points out, outbreaks of insect disease in nature always remain confined to insects, affecting neither the host plants nor animals feeding on them. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z We know that many important drugs used to cure human diseases come from plants or even from insects. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Been a home to an endless parade of animals and insects. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z This means that in terms of the number of species, 70 to 80 per cent of the earth’s creatures are insects. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Aunty Ifeoma swiped impatiently at an insect that flew close to her ears. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z They waded or crept in one after another while the horrible clucking continued and overhead the swallows, alerted to a feast of insects, dipped and soared. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Mars has no insects, parasites, or blights to deal with, and the Hab maintains perfect growing temperature and moisture at all times. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z In the silence, Dicey could hear insects humming. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z It was considered an almost magical creature, outside the realm of common insects. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The landscape below them was a bleak, ash-gray plain bristling with black trees, like insect hair. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “We have suffered more...than any previous day with insects,” Cherrie wrote in his diary. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z The night breeze in the tall sharp grasses, the chirping and clicking of insects. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Obiora brought the kerosene lamps out to the verandah and we sat around them, swatting at the tiny insects that blindly followed the yellow light and bumped against the glass bulbs. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z I thought that if my father hadn't died, he would have taught me all about insects, which was his specialty at the university. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z He’d been in no condition to notice things the day before, but now he saw more clearly the intense color of the water, and heard the strident insect noises from all around. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I drink grape Freshie, which does not taste like grapes but like something you might use to kill insects, and wonder when we’re going to leave for the north. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z In contrast, a chemical that would produce 90 per cent sterility would leave only 12 5 insects alive. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z So foot by foot, like small grey insects, they crept up the slope. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z My husband, similarly burdened, and troubled more than I was by flies and insects, had also to stop frequently, so our going was slow. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Blunt’s eyes, magnified by the thick lenses of his spectacles, lasered into his own, and for a moment, Alex felt himself pinned down, like an insect under a microscope. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z She launched herself up the cargo crates, scaling them like a nimble insect, her rubber-soled feet finding grips and footholds. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The bird split the stick three ways in as many seconds and snapped up the few insects inside. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d seen the plague of locusts at the movies, the sky filled with hordes of insects looking like kamikaze planes. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In the Belgian Congo and Uganda the results of heavy applications of DDT against an insect pest of the coffee bush were almost “catastrophic.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z A pair of swallows rushed by, skimming for insects a few inches above the water. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z He hoped the insect repellent he had sprayed on was helping. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Sky-blue wings splashed with yellow and white dots flapped slowly before the insect took off to flutter elsewhere. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z He and the others sieved out insects and added water as needed. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Whoever they meet first, be it bug, insect, animal, or tree, that will be the one who gets the full power of their magic! James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z Deep in the thick undergrowth near the clearing, at the edge of Leader’s puzzled awareness, a small green frog ate an insect it had caught with its sticky, fast- darting tongue. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Once at a beach after a long hike I saw a seagull, tiny as an insect. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Three jets with their wings folded were parked like maimed insects awaiting rebirth among the tools and oils of the men who swarmed over the broken-open jet in the hangar. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, farmers in Louisiana showed growing reluctance to sign up for the project as it became evident that use of chemicals against the fire ant was causing an upsurge of insects destructive to sugarcane. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “It’s like ... a moment of frozen time. Marcus in the photograph is like the insect caught in amber. Frozen forever, just like that.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Each mountain, each tree, each rock and animal and skittering insect. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z There were two things the factory manager possessed a morbid fear of: insects and stolen chickens. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z It was then used in traps set for the males in census operations along the fringe of the insect’s range. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Or perhaps the person touched a crushed insect, or perhaps he or she was bitten by a spider. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But the silence was profound, with the insect scrapings only scratching at the surface of it. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z In Philadelphia itself an increasing number of cats were dropping dead every day, attracting, one Philadelphian complained, “an amazing number of flies and other insects.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The rhythmic turning of the wagon wheels, the hum of insects in the barley fields along the road, and the beat of Grandfather’s heart blended into a lullaby. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They can spot with accuracy, on the wing, small insects, and they will home onto things they like with infallibility and speed. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “I thought I heard a tiny voice coming from a little insect body. It sounded almost human.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Why did Maria insist on painting her insects with the plants they favored? The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He lay there like some sort of insect, maybe a slug with fresh salt poured on him, disintegrating slowly. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z When Petey pulled her hand free, she wore a brown sleeve of insects. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z A small burial mound in the middle of Nathan’s garden, where vines and flowers have long since unrolled to feed insects and children. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The barks faded and a chorus of night insects rose up in their place, droning and alien. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Repeated sprayings have now completely altered the stream environment, and the aquatic insects that are the food of salmon and trout have been killed. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The gypsy moth is a forest insect, certainly not an inhabitant of cities. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z A recent review of the subject contained references to 215 papers reporting or discussing unfavorable upsets in the balance of insect populations caused by pesticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Even scholars of the time believed insects were creatures that God had not fully formed—inferior, even evil in some way. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Thank you, stick insect,” said Roz as she placed him back where she found him. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z With the passage of time we may expect progressively more serious outbreaks of insects, both disease-carrying and crop-destroying species, in excess of anything we have ever known. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z What use, if any, can be made of this ability of the insect to detect and react to sound? Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The insect life of the leaves and grass was stilled. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Maria did not realize until later in her life that these “false changes”—moth cocoons that produced flies or wasps instead of moths—were caused by insect parasitism. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It seemed to vanish off the face of the earth, but viruses never go away, they only hide, and Marburg continued to cycle in some reservoir of animals or insects in Africa. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z No one had anything to say, and the sounds of the forest slowly came back to Mark’s awareness: insects and a soft breeze through the trees. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z There, the sea breeze blew many away, but here, amongst the still air of the swamps they swarmed close and tore at them, a misery of biting insects. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z The phenomenon of separate animals joining up to form an organism is not unique in insects. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Elowen was regarding her coolly, as if she were merely an unpleasant task to take care of, little larger than an insect she could crush beneath her shoe. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Muddauber wasps build columned nests of mud under the eaves of houses and stock them with insects on which their young will feed. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z And new problems had arisen as insects once present only in insignificant numbers had increased to the status of serious pests. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z This one would include flowers and plants, but its focus would be the insects feeding on those plants. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Six species of cotton insects, along with an assortment of thrips, fruit moths, leaf hoppers, caterpillars, mites, aphids, wireworms, and many others now are able to ignore the farmer’s assault with chemical sprays. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The family hens were attacking the earth, searching for worms and insects, clucking and muttering to one another like proud, fat little abbesses. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z In addition to vegetables and fruits, they eat insects, grass, roots, and small pieces of clay, which they chew and swallow, perhaps to get salt and minerals. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The reason a rubber tree seeps latex when cut is that this is its way of saying to insects and other organisms, “Not tasty. Nothing here for you. Go away.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The budworm is a native insect that attacks several kinds of evergreens. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Clove is scrambling backward on all fours, like a frantic insect, too shocked to even call for Cato. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Mr. Smeath is stuck to her back like an asparagus beetle, grinning like a maniac; both of them have shiny brown insect wings, done to scale and meticulously painted. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Also present in prodigious numbers are microscopic mites and primitive wingless insects called springtails. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Those who don't reach for the mayonnaise when they can't find the insect repellent. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Even insects, such as bees and ants, know how to communicate in sophisticated ways, informing one another of the whereabouts of food. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Any other insects she found nearby, such as flies, wasps, or beetles, she also included as part of its plant-insect community. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The Japanese beetle, an insect accidentally imported into the United States, was discovered in New Jersey in 1916, when a few shiny beetles of a metallic green color were seen in a nursery near Riverton. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Guards fan out behind her like a cluster of shelled insects. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z They killed off, directly or indirectly, hundreds of species of birds, insects, snails and other local inhabitants. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z These treetop feeders are affected either directly by eating poisoned insects or indirectly by a shortage of food. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Some of the most interesting of the recent work is concerned with still other ways of forging weapons from the insect’s own life processes. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Their target is the nervous system, whether the victim is an insect or a warm-blooded animal. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Hummingbirds evolved instead to feed on nectar and insects, which they find by using their own wings. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The great insect landed at once, its red and yellow gleaming like enamel, and its filmy wings stiff and still on either side. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The means by which insects resist chemicals probably vary and as yet are not thoroughly understood. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Sometimes what appears to be a leaf or stick in the rain forest is really an insect, fooling a would-be predator by blending in with its surroundings. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Hugh’s insects swarmed and stung people until they were banished from the house, after which Hugh spent all his time at the window, his bees screening the other side of the glass. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Bats dive and swoop through clouds of gnats, and the insects scatter and re-form once more. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I can hear the buzz of insects, the calling of a wildcat or wolf, and sometimes the voice of a person, a man or a woman calling out a name or yelling at their children. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z A screaming tornado of insects swirled around the room, coating the walls in glistening black, purple, and green. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z I learned that insects are arthropods and that they have tibias too! Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z There’s the sound of insects, birds, the breeze in the foliage. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Below them two whaling ships were as tiny as insects. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z With each insect, he closed his eyes and imagined a baby sparrow reaching upward with an opened beak. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z They called to each other and ate insects numbed by the cold. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z From this height they looked like insects, eagerly massed at the entrance of a bug trap. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Powerful sprayers direct a stream of poison to all parts of the tallest trees, killing directly not only the target organism, the bark beetle, but other insects, including pollinating species and predatory spiders and beetles. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z On either side of us the fields grew wild, bursting with flowering weeds and humming with late-summer insects. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z She could hear the gentle lull of her father’s voice and that of John Churchmouse, blending with the hum of nocturnal insects from the meadow and hedges on this balmy summer night. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z I feel pinned to this awful moment like a dead insect. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z A mummer on stilts was striding through the throngs like some great insect, with a horde of barefoot children trailing behind him, hooting. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He wore big round glasses and buzzed on about drugs in a whiny insect voice. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z The insects were eating everything in their path, including Cherrie’s rain poncho, mosquito netting, and duffel bag. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z The insect Swammerdam used in his experiments back in 1669 was nothing other than a silkworm. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The only visitors the rest of us get are insects. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Very clearly, sharply, the sound of the evil insect weapon. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The helicopters were closer, a great blowing of insects to a single light source. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Searching became harder, for in the wet the insects burrowed into the deep grass and had to be scratched out. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She would have to rely on her sharp memory, her knowledge of insects, and her detailed notes. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z There’s an unpleasant chorus of clicking, probably from some evil type of insect, coming from the eleven-to-twelve-o’clock wedge. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The sweet, carrion scent of dogwood filled the air; in the evening sunshine, the insects hummed around the dense white cymes hanging low above the grass. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The list of resistant species now includes practically all of the insect groups of medical importance. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The number of generations produced by an insect population in a year is important, and this varies with species and climate. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He made no attempt to place his insects in natural settings, however. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I wondered if Mary had been an outdoor type who preferred trees and insects over the churchy halo she had on. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Agricultural use of insect diseases, caused by a bacterium highly specific for certain lypes of insects, is already being tried in California, and more extended tests of this method are under way. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z We might wake up and find ourselves transformed into insects. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Out of one of them suddenly dropped a small scarlet insect, buzzing as it fell. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z My father has noticed an ad in the paper, for an atomic radiation monster insect movie. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z They are ugly gray insects, with such quick flight that they are hard to kill. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z My mom’s paintings have always been brightly colored and beautiful, but something about applying all that color to her intricate, almost anatomical drawings of insects makes them something more than beautiful. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z “Because we gobble up all the nasty little insects that are gobbling up all the farmer’s crops. It helps enormously, and we ourselves don’t charge a penny for our services.” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z The bacteria that live in the tissues of insects, like those incorporated into the mycetocytes of cockroaches and termites, have the appearance of specialized organs in their hosts. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Nothing except the roots of the old peach tree...and a whole lot of earthworms and centipedes and insects living in the soil. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z He noticed her long feet, the color of ivory, peppered with insect bites. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z She had the curiosity of a true scientist, the patience it took to raise insects, and the superb artistic skill necessary to share her observations. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Two critically important facts have been overlooked in designing the modern insect control programs. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It all started when Jan Swammerdam used a scalpel to peel away the outer layers of a certain insect. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Without eyes to offer contrast, the eyelashes looked like insects moving against the hollow sockets. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z I noticed that for quite some time the countryside had been buzzing with the sound of insects and the crackling of grass. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z Some behavioral habit may also place the insect out of reach of chemicals. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Once destroyed, populations of these insects, so essential to the survival of trout, take a long time to rebuild. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I had seen moths and winged insects pouring from the mouth of the cave, and it occurred to me that some of them must be flying all the way to the back. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Humans also had a far easier time chewing and digesting old favourites such as fruits, nuts, insects and carrion if they were cooked. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z All such experiments are first steps toward wholly new concepts of insect control which the miracles of electronics may some day make a reality. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Frightful was jabbing at some insect in the grass below me when suddenly a flashbulb exploded and a man appeared. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z This time I had water, peanut butter sandwiches, a map, and insect repellent. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z She also finally had time to sort through her jumble of insect notes and paintings from years of flower and caterpillar investigations. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z She watched animals, birds, and insects which disguised themselves as leaves or twigs or other animals to escape from things that could hurt them. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z It was the exact opposite: a slender, transparent concoction of black plastic and odd protuberances and mesh that looked like the exoskeleton of a giant prehistoric insect. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z In trying to get rid of one insect, they have brought on a scourge of a much more destructive one. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In fact, corn grown in fields within this area contained almost twice as many of the destructive larvae of this insect as did the corn grown outside. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Neither is a native insect but both have been in this country for many years without creating a situation calling for desperate measures. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The entomologist, whose specialty is insects, is not so qualified by training, and is not psychologically disposed to look for undesirable side effects of his control program. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Aunty Ifeka reached inside the paste to pick out a small black insect. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He went without a shirt but something about the wood smoke smell on him kept die insects from bothering him as he walked to the berry patch. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z Their half muted crankings miles above where they circled the earth as senselessly as insects trooping the rim of a bowl. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The walking stick insect is great at camouflage. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z A mechanical golden insect whirred to life above them, opening its stained-glass wings and hovering so they were lit as if standing under a Tiffany lamp. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The insects are older than people, they have more experience at surviving, and there are a lot more of them than there are of us. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Or was everything constantly changing—the insects and the weeds and the wheat? A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Finally leaving behind ancient Aristotelian beliefs, insect scholars had begun to agree with Goedart that direct observation was the only reliable approach to studying natural processes. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z There are insect carcasses everywhere, squashed against the windowpanes and walls, languishing in pools of water behind the taps of the sink. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z With insects that infest crops the story is the same. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He never ventured with his hands, never touched an insect or carried a snake about. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Morning brought the shimmery buzz of insect clouds and the chatter of waking birds, but still no traffic sounds on the road. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The social insects, especially ants, have been sources of all kinds of parables, giving lessons in industry, interdependence, altruism, humility, frugality, patience. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The insect pathogens are so specific that they infect only a small group of insects — sometimes a single species. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Although some of the leaf-feeding insects were eliminated, any benefit that might thus have been gained was more than offset by bollworm damage. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z If something is possible for a genus, then it’s possible for a species: that is, if something’s true of insects, it’s true of ants. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z The songs of the insects were fewer and intermittent. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The spider quickly wrapped the insect in silk, broke it into pieces, and shot some kind of juice inside it. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Was I going to give it all up because I was too chicken to touch a stupid insect? Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z That night, as I drift off to sleep, I wonder about the wasp, if there’s an insect heaven, if it’s the same as human heaven. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Behind those medieval walls lay the bodies of a million insects, and under its floors the cooling corpses of spiders and mice. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z They tested her like she was some kind of insect. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Why should they not also aid us in the control of insects? Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z There I could be with a group of people who were all really knowledgeable about African mammals, birds, reptiles, and insects. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Wherever there are great forests, modern methods of insect control threaten the fishes inhabiting the streams in the shelter of the trees. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z No insects hovered over the dying plants or the well. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe time is like that insect,” Blink said, “trapped beneath the crystal of your watch.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z It’s quiet except for the clacking hooves and buzzing insects in the yellowed grass. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The very substantial financial investment involved in backing and launching an insecticide may be swept away as the insects prove once more that the effective approach to nature is not through brute force. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I slowly turn my back to the hospital and find Cressida, flanked by the insects, standing a couple of yards in front of me. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The chemical has also destroyed some important insect predators and so has caused an increase in the tortricids — small, stout-bodied moths whose larvae scar the surface of the bananas. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “I don’t leave it out long enough. Some days the insects consume all the milk before I collect the pans. Thirsty critters.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z One scientist has even suggested that some sort of “zoo” should be established to preserve insects, mites, and the like, before their genetic composition is further changed. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Dozens of insects, worms, and grubs squirmed in the unaccustomed light. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z A week later she died from poisons she had accumulated in South America from eating birds that had eaten DDT-sprayed insects. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The deep mud that sucked at our feet, the swarms of insects, the eruptions of the volcano were like messages of the island’s unhappiness. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s a student of my father’s, a young man from India who’s here to study insects and who’s never seen snow before. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z In the evening Levi leapt around the room catching insects attracted to the lights. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z The silence of the forest was more oppressive than the heat, and at this hour of the day there was not even the whine of insects. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z But when the insects go silent, the lightning will start. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Even some insects have been domesticated, notably Eurasia’s honeybee and China’s silkworm moth, kept for honey and silk, respectively. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They stepped off the black road and into the knee-high grass, swishing their legs through the stems, watching the insects hovering, darting, fluttering, skimming, hearing the million-voiced chorus chirrup and scrape. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Now they were covered with dust and the shells of dead insects. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I had contrarily become something of a devotee of them because they are tough and give good protection against thorns, ticks, insects, and poison ivy—perfect for the woods. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Faster than Nhamo could see, the insect was in and out of biting range. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It is also pullulatingly alive: howling with insects, hot and humid as demon’s breath, perpetually shaded by mats of lianas and branches. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It has long troubled the entomologists that the rest of us are always interfering in their affairs by offering explanations of insect behavior in human terms. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z We found them still in place late the next morning, the water of the dishes swarming with insects. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The first suggestion that an insect might be controlled by encouraging its enemies is generally credited to Erasmus Darwin about 1800. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It is, however, quite bad form in biological circles to put it the other way round, to imply that the operation of insect societies has any relation at all to human affairs. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of the most fascinating of the new methods are those that seek to turn the strength of a species against itself — to use the drive of an insect’s life forces to destroy it. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z How could anyone presume to know the world through the eyes of an insect? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He didn’t think it was any more dangerous than playing with millions of stinging insects and risking anaphylactic shock. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z I scraped at it with my hands; old, rotten insect- ridden dust came tumbling out. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Long before the age of man, insects inhabited the earth — a group of extraordinarily varied and adaptable beings. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z An insect crushed itself against the windshield, leaving a yellow, mucous smear. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The ground was alive with insects—so many that Doon just laughed in helpless wonder. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Or the different ways that juicy, nice-tasting insects mimic poisonous ones so they will not be eaten. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Strangely, no insects sang; all dogs and coyotes were quiet. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But not all communication in the insect world is by scents that lure or repel. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z A great deal of time is required, even after a single spraying, for most of these insects to build up sufficient numbers to support a normal salmon population — time measured in years rather than months. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He picked the insect up very gently between his thumb and forefinger and held him out for his parents to see. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z “Are you hungry? Shall we get you some insects?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The insects were diminishing in number, and soon their season would be over, which was just as well, as the Fentress Firefly Prize ribbon was grubby and limp. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z In an effort to supply this natural food, the Canadians have attempted to transplant caddis fly larvae and other insects to the barren reaches of the Miramichi. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z By a process of genetic selection, the insects are developing strains resistant to chemicals. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Fortunately, today’s scientists, historians, and art collectors have rediscovered and acknowledged her work for what it is: amazingly beautiful, accurate portrayals of insect metamorphoses and ecosystems. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z All around them the quiet noises of the afternoon hung in the warm air: the endless trickling sucking of the marsh, the scraping of insects, the calling of gulls. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “My parents rescue insects and arachnids from our home, taking them outside rather than killing them. It’s illogical for my parents to save spiders and hit their own son.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z Her text discussed the metamorphosis of more than fifty moths and butterflies, describing the timing of each phase, her repeated experiments and failures, and any other interesting insect behavior she had observed. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z There the insect feeds on blood and lays eggs. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z On the other hand, the sounds made by certain wood-boring insects enable their parasites to find them, and to the male mosquito the wing- beat of the female is a siren song. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The water was like glass, and in it were little insects with oars. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The wretched insects sucked life from him faster than he could replenish it. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z The wheel-net spiders are most important, for the webs of some of them are so narrow-meshed that they can catch all flying insects. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He saw a lot of insects, spiders, and shiny, segmented beetles, going in and out of the twigs. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z A wasp imported from Japan established complete control of an insect attacking eastern apple orchards. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Becoming embarrassed by the presence of these insects, he took control measures in his own hands. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He had suffered a concussion but gradually regained consciousness through the dawn and staggered about half-blinded into the open, with no more sense of direction than an insect rushing at flame. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z These novel insects, named Blatella asmithicus after the geneticist responsible for creating them, Dr. Andrew Smith, measure nearly a meter in length, and have an astounding resiliency and immunity to all known toxins. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z In eastern forests of Canada and the United States bacterial insecticides may be one important answer to the problems of such forest insects as the budworms and the gypsy moth. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Some insects or plants stung my arms, but I couldn’t see them and I couldn’t care. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z How flies and other insects detoxify the organic phosphorus chemicals is less clearly understood. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But there is no such rapid recovery of the larger aquatic insects, on which salmon in their second and third years depend. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Records attesting to his death were pullulating like insect eggs and verifying each other beyond all contendon. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Departing from Goedart’s example, she also included eggs, declaring boldly that eggs were the source of every caterpillar despite widespread public belief in spontaneous generation of insects. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “You’re also going to need an expert entomologist. Someone who can identify all the insects.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Though this was a flower book, Maria included beautifully detailed insects on almost every page. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The ground teemed with insects, and he began putting ants, beetles, spiders, and even a fuzzy caterpillar into his mouth. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z And despite the heat and humidity, they were often forced to wear stifling head nets and gloves in order to protect themselves from the clouds of insects that hounded them. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Dr. Alexander feels that any conceivable use of such chemicals in insect control would be “open to the most severe objections.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Maria had decided that insects belonged to plants and plants to insects. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Harry’s immediate impression was of a large, glittering insect. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z The rest of the insects have targeted their enemies on the ground. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The jungle insects tuned their constant hum to a high- pitched clamor. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The emphasis in Canada is on small mammals, which are amazingly effective in the control of certain insects, especially those that live within the spongy soil of the forest floor. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The Department of Agriculture’s Yearbook for 1952, devoted entirely to insects, recognizes the fact that insects become resistant but says, “More applications or greater quantities of the insecticides are needed then for adequate control.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Over ten feet tall, even hunched over, he shuffled through the mass of insects. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Exploring the meadows and bogs surrounding the castle, she discovered new insects, species she had never seen. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z For a moment, I stood there, looking out at the marsh and listening to all of her sounds: insects buzzing, crickets singing, bubbles popping on the surface. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Any cell—man, animal, fish, fowl, or insect—given the chance and under the right conditions, brought into contact with any other cell, however foreign, will fuse with it. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The little black needle was scurrying, an insect, nibbling through time, eating into his money. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z It is the public that is being asked to assume the risks that the insect controllers calculate. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I must have finally been able to ignore the occasional dropping leaf or the tickle of insects on my skin, because I fell asleep. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Although insect resistance is a matter of concern in agriculture and forestry, it is in the field of public health that the most serious apprehensions have been felt. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z We fanned out across the hissing black field, picking up charred insects. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It seemed lively enough, and I was quite proud of the bit about the drops of sweat like insects, only I had the dim impression I'd probably read it somewhere else a long time ago. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Lots of shops were dark and bare; nowhere could I find a store at which to get insect repellent. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Slowly, using her best script, she copied her notes from the past two decades of insect study. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Yes, that exactly what I mean. If weed and insect win, would be tragedy. We would starve, so would others. So I must not take break. So deshō.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The predators — insects that kill and consume other insects — are of many kinds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Still, Maria’s main purpose in Surinam was recording insects, and the sheer number of them was staggering. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Beginning in the spring of 1919, the insect known as the boll weevil had destroyed entire cotton crops, throwing thousands of black agricultural workers out of work. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The fire moved faster than we did, we the young and elderly shepherdesses of dead insects. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Besides, these colorful compositions of insects and plants were much more artistically pleasing than Goedart’s rows of specimens on a white background. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z In return he showed them how to protect themselves from the stings of poisonous insects and demonstrated the effectiveness of his antidote by placing a live scorpion on his arm. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Just as woodpeckers specialise in extracting insects from the trunks of trees, the first humans specialised in extracting marrow from bones. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z That night, I swept the insects off my bed and windowsill and slept extremely well in what was to be my new home. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Squatting, it moved its protruding eyes around, trying to sense more insects to devour. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Similarly, the small birds in the rest areas began to learn that the automobiles and trucks that came roaring in brought with them a wonderful smorgasbord of insects caught and carried in their radiator grilles. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Instead of the night songs of the coyote, we would hear the buzzing and chirping and chattering of millions of insects—all of which seemed to see us Marines as their midnight snacks. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps food had appeared where at the last incursion there had been none; bird droppings, insects perhaps, any of the strewn detritus of landward life. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z She admired his treasures: corals, insects, seashells, preserved animals, and precious stones. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “The stone. Have you ever seen a piece of amber with an insect stuck inside it?” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Giant shadows of small insects swooped along the walls and ceiling. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Everyone is drawing away from me—Gale, Cressida, the insects—giving me the stage. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z I am saying, rather, that control must be geared to realities, not to mythical situations, and that the methods employed must be such that they do not destroy us along with the insects. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Everyone wanted to make a chair that looked like the exoskeleton of a giant prehistoric insect. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Many waved—the lifted hand motionless, the fingers fluttering nonstop, like the legs of an insect on its back—and Farmer returned the gesture. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z These bats were insect eaters, and the guano was an ooze of digested insects. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z All these examples concern insects that attack agricultural crops. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He waved his antennae carefully, considering the notice, assuring himself of his new senses, planting Ins feet squarely in the insect world as if to brace himself in it. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It is an underground traffic zone, a biological mixing point where different species of animals and insects cross one another’s paths in an enclosed air space. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He had taught himself all he knew about the transformations of insects, just as she had. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Then I wondered if they were not eating something I couldn’t see—tiny insects perhaps; well, anyway, whatever it was, I decided to fish. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Kill them off and the population of the prey insect surges upward. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Scrubby trees stood out from gravel banks, and beneath them, here and there, were the red-flushed, spawned-out bodies of salmon, insects happy around them. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z A new supply of insect repellent came in. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Plagues of insects and consequent further agricultural disorders are a likely consequence of nuclear war. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Their camping-place was damp, cold, and uncomfortable; and the biting insects would not let them sleep. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Snowflakes flick against the windshield like tiny insects, a few at first, then so many the road disappears. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z To an ever-increasing degree, chemicals used for the control of insects, rodents, or unwanted vegetation contribute to these organic pollutants. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I glanced around the walls, which were covered with shallow boxes displaying alarming stick insects and bright multicolored butterflies. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z When my feet hit the ground, I find a bodyguard, Cressida, and the other insect waiting. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Maine, too, has its forests of spruce and balsam, and its problem of controlling forest insects. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z People who once held family fortresses against wind and weather, against scourges of frost and drought and insect enemies, now cluster against the busy breast of the big town. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Creatures that feed on insects, especially birds, also get sick and die. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z No one knows how many species of insects inhabit the earth because so many are yet to be identified. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z There were Jains with masks tied around their faces so they wouldn’t accidentally breathe in an insect and so kill a living thing, which was against their religion. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z “In these collections, I saw countless other insects, but in a manner that lack both their origin and how they reproduced, that is to say how they changed from caterpillars to chrysalises and so on.” The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z And there are many wasps, and flies as well, whose very existence depends on the destruction of the eggs or larvae of other insects through parasitism. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But she wasn’t ready for that, or for the feeding of live insects. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Remember, even chickens who can forage for insects and other foods will get the majority of their nutritional needs from this feed, so choose wisely. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z It was pocked all over with little funnel-shaped snares, where the ant lions lay buried at the bottom, waiting for some poor insect to stumble into the trap and get devoured. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z At other times spraying, while reasonably effective against the target insect, has let loose a whole Pandora’s box of destructive pests that had never previously been abundant enough to cause trouble. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Small, beach-living insects had feasted on her skin overnight, and she scratched at the red bites that covered her legs and arms. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Within two years after this insect was accidentally introduced from Europe in 1917, the United States Government had mounted one of its most intensive programs for locating and importing parasites of an insect pest. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Hello, stick insect, my name is Roz. You are very well camouflaged.” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z All food was eaten uncooked, worms and small insects providing the main diet. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Under the stress of intensive chemical spraying the weaker members of the insect populations are being weeded out. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z An unnecessary remark, I suppose, as we both watched the peculiar insect struggling in his hands. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Nearly half of the 180 or so major insect enemies of plants in the United States are accidental imports from abroad, and most of them have come as hitchhikers on plants. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The whir and roar beneath us was the only sound in my ears — riding the bike was the only time I couldn’t hear the constant insects and birds of Congo. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Before it could connect, Tartarus swatted Bob aside like he was a pesky insect. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z They could catch the virus from an insect in their diet. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Others who studied insects were wealthy, learned gentlemen with far more resources than she. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The only survivors are insects that have some inherent quality that allows them to escape harm. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Even later in the day, my enthusiasm for primitive sensation would survive the heat and the dust and the insects pricking my back. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The messenger, bored and scratching at an insect bite on his neck, came to Kira in the dawn and told her that she must report to the Council of Guardians at late morning. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Even in 1959, with more than 100 major insect species showing definite resistance to chemicals, one of the leading journals in the field of agricultural chemistry spoke of “real or imagined” insect resistance. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I sit on a rock at the water’s edge, listen to its murmuring and the insects’ humming, feeling utterly alone. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The dripping branch was shaken above my head and drops of water wet my face and scalp, some of it rolling down my neck and wetting my back, like insects crawling. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z However, a web gets torn every day by the insects that kick around in it, and a spider must rebuild it when it gets full of holes. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z I remembered about old logs and all the sleeping stages of insects that are in it. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z I think about the sound of insects and birds at dusk. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Jellyfish and insects, frogs and lizards, fish and birds are all animals just as cats and dogs are. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Thore were no birds, no insects, no animals, and no wind. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z His voice cracked with the strain, and they stood looking at each other in the whiteness and the emptiness, and Harry felt they were as insignificant as insects beneath that wide sky. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Under a square of toweling, placed there to keep insects out, the basin was full of still water. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Resistance in cabbage insects is creating another serious problem. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z There’s something crawling through my mind like a black insect, causing me to doubt. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Out of an original population, the members of which vary greatly in qualities of structure, behavior, or physiology, it is the “tough” insects that survive chemical attack. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The air of the place carried no flies, no butterflies, no bees, no insects of any kind. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z In the window itself, there were vases and candlesticks, surrounded by little gondolas and glass insects, laid out on threadbare velvet drapes. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Not until it was absorbed would they begin to search the stream for small insects. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He reached over and pulled one of the tiny musical insects out of her ear. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z The lot was filling up quickly with cars that looked like large insects. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Other boxes are specially designed for owls and for bats, so that these creatures may take over in the dark hours the work of insect hunting performed in daylight by the small birds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Those guys made Indians feel like insects pinned to a display board. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z Will watched the great insects charging fearlessly up at them, for all the world as if the harpies were flies and they could snap them up in their jaws, big as they were. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Simultaneously, there is a strong tendency to brand as fanatics or cultists all who are so perverse as to demand that their food be free of insect poisons. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z At a formal dinner once a professor of some science or other, wanting to make small talk, had pointed out a few insects gyrating above a candelabra. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The mountainside was streaked with sparkling black and blue lines, like the veins of some giant we little insects were inching across. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z It was a little insect, about an inch long and covered with dirt. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Time rose up a little higher on its insect legs. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Sometimes ants and other insects fell with it. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Until the insects shut up, it will be impossible to tell. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The vast majority of these insects are held in check by natural forces, without any intervention by man. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Efforts to control the fungus disease of the elms have been directed largely toward control of the carrier insect. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Though beautifully depicted, the insects in this book were not drawn to scale, and Hoefnagel had no sense of their origin. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The days are warm and the nights cool, with the constant sounds of insects and tree frogs lulling us to sleep. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z In the summer we would count the insect tracks in the sand across the road and try to figure out what bug made which track. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z But now the stream insects were dead, killed by the DDT, and there was nothing for a young salmon to eat. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z They would spend hours together, walking around picking up plants and insects. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Now he had to move like an insect along the surface of the earth. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The gypsy moth lure was the first insect sex attractant to be synthesized, but probably there will soon be others. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z |
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