Sentence examples for insect plague from inspiring English sources
As for the clacking teeth, which seem to evoke gorillas or, more topically in this cicada summer, an insect plague, Mr. Forster said that aspect was actually his one nod toward the gothic.
The double menace of insect plague and drought damage spreads across the nation's agricultural section in the shape of a triangle bordered by the Ohio and Missouri Rivers and the Canadian border.
The insect plague you describe and the fires are but the early stages of changing the climate out from under the vegetation of the earth, the first increments of the progressive, systematic biotic impoverishment caused by chronic disturbance.
As in most religions, every stage of the Mormon narrative is stocked with miracles -- from the sea gulls, now memorialized in statue form over downtown for saving the early settlers from an insect plague, to the appearance and later disappearance in the early 1800's of the golden plates from which came the Mormon bible.
We're at the office of The Cambodia Daily, a former cathouse given to disrepair and the odd insect plague.
Prior to the phylloxera epidemic, the insect plague which devastated French vineyards in the 19th century, these interspersed cuttings were transported to Chile where the field blends are still common today.
Mentions some of the insect plagues that threaten the forests.
Given the insect plagues, droughts, hails, freezes, January heat waves and varmints I've tussled with in recent seasons, I'd put myself squarely amid the pessimists' camp.
Other specimens speak of insect plagues almost biblical in their brutality, as swarms of spruce budworms descended on proud stands of Douglas fir and stripped their foliage to near-death nakedness.
Warming temperatures are forcing farmers to cultivate their spuds at higher altitudes, as less resilient forms succumb to rampant disease and insect plagues below.
State propaganda has previously proclaimed that the large number of stick insects plaguing corn fields was due to imperialist scheming by the United States, said the source.
