How to Use insect in a Sentence

insect

noun
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  • But this insect leaves one of the most painful bug bites.
    — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 19 Jan. 2023
  • This plant shows signs of an insect sucking on the sap of the plant.
    — oregonlive, 5 Feb. 2023
  • Head Lice Lice are insects that lay eggs while attached to the hairs of the head.
    — Parents Editors, Parents, 6 June 2023
  • And despite their name, the insects are not just found in the bedroom.
    — Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2023
  • From birth to death, these insects shape the forest around them.
    — Celia Ford, WIRED, 28 Mar. 2024
  • This South American insect is one of the largest in the world.
    — Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2022
  • Most insects dislike the strong scent and will stay away.
    — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Oct. 2024
  • Spray the leaves with a strong stream of water to knock most insect pest off the foliage.
    — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 1 Oct. 2022
  • The insects fled only 47 percent of the time when the robot didn’t flash its wings.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Then, place the whole tree over a white sheet, give it a few firm shakes, and watch for any insects that fall off.
    — Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Dec. 2024
  • The insect in the nymph stage has coloring similar to that in the adult stage.
    — oregonlive, 3 June 2023
  • But a man a few feet away, who was allergic to the insect’s sting, was not alarmed.
    — Noah Lederman, Popular Science, 2 Nov. 2023
  • The study was the first to find acoustic mimicry between a mammal and an insect.
    — Karen Hopkin, Scientific American, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Check for little holes in the husks, which could be insect or worm holes; avoid those ears and move on the next one.
    — Patricia S York, Southern Living, 29 May 2024
  • That year, Mars launched a line of cat food made from insects, called LoveBug.
    — Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 20 Oct. 2023
  • While there, researchers found a red insect perched on a twig and captured it.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The Amazon’s bullet ant may be tiny, but this little insect has the most painful sting in the world.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 14 July 2022
  • This removes the scale and insect and does little damage to your tree.
    — oregonlive, 19 Mar. 2022
  • While sage brush leaves make up the bulk of the sage grouse’s diet, the birds also feed on other plants and some insects.
    — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 11 Jan. 2024
  • One way to prevent stings is to avoid making the insects feel threatened.
    — Michael Menna, Verywell Health, 11 May 2023
  • The sharp fragrances of mint and rosemary leaves were meant to repel insects.
    — Rachel Riederer, The New Yorker, 12 June 2024
  • It’s amplified in the tree boughs and joined by gentle insect songs.
    — Ryan Ballogg, Miami Herald, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The insect to me looks like a syrphid fly larvae that is eating aphids.
    — oregonlive, 11 June 2022
  • Starting this spring, trillions of the red-eyed insects crawled their way out of the ground across the Midwest and Southeast.
    — Zach Dyer, NPR, 26 June 2024
  • Place a few weatherproof fans around your patio to keep the insects at bay.
    — Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 2 June 2023
  • Fun fact: Once the leaves fall, the arboretum keeps some of them on the ground for the insect populations.
    — Naheed Rajwani-Dharsi, Axios, 16 Dec. 2024
  • The trick will be adapting DAS to monitor species that aren’t the loudest insects on Earth.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Each night, the bats emerge from their roost, helping to keep the city free of mosquitos and other insects.
    — Brittanie Shey, Chron, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Larger trees may simply have more insects to drop frass, which could impact the results if tree sizes weren’t standardized between forest types.
    — Ethan Freedman, Popular Science, 29 Jan. 2025
  • Tracking insect migration is not as straightforward as tracking birds or mammals.
    — Saugat Bolakhe, JSTOR Daily, 23 Jan. 2025

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