The phrase "a sort of insect" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing something that resembles or is similar to an insect, but may not be a true insect.
Example: "The creature I found in the garden was a sort of insect, with wings and antennae, but it was much larger than any fly I've seen."
Alternatives: "a type of insect" or "a kind of insect".
It said: "The council feels such a name conjures up mental connotations of stinging and danger and would much prefer to find a name that has nothing to do with any sort of insect".
To paraphrase the slogan of Roach Motel, a brand of traps aimed at a different sort of insect pest, bed bugs check in, but they don't check out.The new trap could be used both to assess whether a hotel room or apartment is infested and also to kill the insects without dousing everything in insecticide which is, in any case, an increasingly futile exercise, as many have now evolved resistance.
Paleobotanist Peter Wilf of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, came across Strong's research in 1998, when he was studying a different sort of insect damage--mysterious specks of fossilized material found on 53-million-year-old fossil leaves from Wyoming.
In addition to the pig and dog, a certain upwardly mobile fly alerts the harvester -- in a sort of foot-stamping, insect version of "my-child is going to Dalton or nowhere" -- by buzzing over the buried truffle and trying to deposit her eggs on the ground above it.
Deer fly bites are painful Deer fly bites are painful because this sort of insect has a sharp, knife-like mouth.
Adenauer later invented an electrical gadget for killing insects, a sort of rotary apparatus to clear people out of the way of oncoming trams, and a light to go inside toasters.
Databases of varying quality are available for many groups of species, particularly birds, mammals, plants and the showier sort of insect.
Other species smell like a fungus to attract fungus gnats, or even like feces or carrion to attract the sort of insect that prefers to mate and lay its eggs on such things.
The poet, then thirty-seven, looked, to his worshipper, "rather over than under sixty," his body nearly "deformed" by the mismatch of his short legs and his long torso; he walked like "some sort of insect," De Quincey wrote.
