Thrips, e.g.

Usage examples of insect.

Vandene and Careane were both tight-lipped, and even Adeleas seemed included, turning her head this way and that to study the women along the walls as she might have insects previously unknown to her.

The few deer, pheasant, turkey, squirrels, rabbits, and the like had multiplied to the point where some hunting was allowed, and as with all the Anchors, there was a complex ecological chain involving insects, birds, and many other creatures, not all of which were nice for or to humans but all of which were necessary to keep the system in some sort of balance.

The weight of the armored soldiers pushed the Archai back, but the twin forelimbs and suicidal tenacity of the insect warriors made them terrible opponents in a close-quarter fight like this one.

He gave a pretty demonstration of a bird chasing insects, darting, banking, soaring, whirling and plunging with the sun ashine upon the beauty of his snow-white plumage.

Swallow and Ata and any other women for a year, while we turn the tide to obliterate the Insects.

Curious, Audubon stopped and waited by some poppies for a closer look at the insects.

Thin bolts of energy stabbed through the barroom ceiling, transfixing people here and there like insects on pins.

The insect urgently thrust out into the light and Bergen spat it towards the other of the two men, who sprang back out of the way.

Any insects there now are there because the bionomics board planned it that way and the chief ecologist okayed the invasion.

And he was aware of each individual tree and every leaf upon all the branches, the roosting birdlife and dormant insects, the larger animals that slept hidden in the underbrush.

To a soldier, their faces were swollen and red with insect bites, and many had the glassy-eyed expressions of men ill with the ague.

Flies gathered around him in swarms, covering every part of his body, and he repeatedly had to remind himself of his Brahminical heritage which forbade him from swatting the bothersome insects.

If any time-travelers had brought budwood from improved stonefruits, the resulting trees might have been too susceptible to Pliocene insects and diseases to survive without chemical protection.

The moon was attending to business in the section of sky where it belonged, and the trees was making shadows on the ground according to science and nature, and there was a kind of conspicuous hullabaloo going on in the bushes between the bullbats and the orioles and the jack-rabbits and other feathered insects of the forest.

But Candlemas yelled as another insect tore into his robe at the shoulder, seeking sweet meat and rich red blood.