Sentence examples for a few insects from inspiring English sources

Maybe a few birds can nest and maybe a few insects.

Depending on the seasonal availability of food, its diet may also contain nectar, pollen, leaves, and, rarely, a few insects.

It is attained by many birds (especially large forms, such as condors and albatrosses) and a few insects (e.g., monarch butterfly).

As days lengthen and temperatures climb, it is common to find a few insects bumbling around the house, looking for a way outdoors.

More than a few insects are associated with pestilence and disease, of course, and others sting us or drink our blood.

A few insects (e.g., the stick insect Carausius) rarely produce males, and the eggs develop without fertilization in a process known as parthenogenesis.

She saw, she says, "early acne, dry skin and quite a few insect bites".

"We are risking far too much to combat a few insect pests that might threaten agriculture," said Dr Jeroen van der Sluijs at Utrecht University.

Even if I spent an hour scrutinising twigs with a magnifying glass, I doubt that I would be able to find more than a few insect eggs and perhaps a spider or two.

Our knowledge of NOS function in invertebrates is still limited [62], and the gene has only been cloned from a few insect species [28], [60].

Since then, it was reported in a few insect species that dsRNA can be integrated in artificial diets and results in target gene knockdown [14], [15].