Sentence examples for a type of insect from inspiring English sources

For many years farmers have controlled the spread of locusts (a type of insect that eats crop plants) with the chemical DDT.

A pheromone trap is a type of insect trap that uses pheromones to lure insects.

Mint, fennel, dill, yarrow, clover, and dandelions are known to attract lacewings, ladybugs, and a type of insect actually called the "aphid predator".

"Mosquitoes and ticks can absolutely drive someone to the point of insanity without any type of insect repellant".

In doodlebugs (which are also known as antlions, and are the larval stage of a type of winged insect similar to a dragonfly), scientists had also known that the paralyzing toxin was produced by symbiotic bacteria in the bugs' saliva.

Since the early 1990's, a type of parasitic insect, a small aphid called the woolly adelgid (pronounced uh-DEL-jid) has been eating its way through the hemlocks at the preserve, systematically destroying the trees, and forever changing the character of the historic forest.

Insecticides with a high predicted probability (≥20%) of being present in a product used to treat a specific type of insect were consistently found at higher concentrations in households reporting treatment for that insect.

The dog might detect a different type of insect.

Beware of the insects' defenses when you collect (stingers, sprayers, jaws, sucking mouth parts, etc).. Find out with your doctor if you are allergic to any type of insects.

In almost all host species examined, the endosymbionts are harbored inside a type of evolutionarily adapted insect cells called bacteriocytes, located in a pair of slightly orange-colored bacteriomes, subdivided into three partial bacteriomes of spherical shape on each side of the abdomen.

Cordyceps spp., including Cordyceps militaris (CM) and C. sinensis, are a type of Ascomycete, it parasitizes insect larvae, grows, and gradually turns into a mature fruiting body.