Sentence examples for insect sex from inspiring English sources

Books have been written about insect sex.

Pheromones are important as insect sex attractants and as regulators of the social organization of social insects; e.g., bees.

The open house, which is free and open to the public, will feature screenings of "Green Porno" Isabella Rossellini's short film series about insect sex lives.

Raffles's entry on "queer" insect sex is more life-affirming, and comic, sparked off by an image of a butterfly probing the anus of a rove beetle, "just two little animals enjoying a little action... and feeling pretty good about it," as Raffles writes, exhorting, "We need more queerness!" "Insectopedia" is nothing if not experimental.

Found in northeastern China, the new fossil not only represents a new species of froghopper, Anthoscytina perpetua it is also the oldest example of insect sex by about 60 million years.

Other biological agents adopted by the conventional crop-protection industry include plant-growth regulators, which are analogues of natural plant hormones, and insect sex attractants (pheromones) used to attract pests to traps or to disrupt their mating.

Sex-specific splicing of the honeybee Apis mellifera doublesex gene revealed 300 million years of conservation at the bottom of the insect sex-determination pathway, confirming its key role in sexual differentiation [ 21, 22].

Many orchids lure insects to pollinate their flowers by imitating the insects' sex pheromones.

I asked Marlene Zuk, a professor in the department of ecology, evolution and behavior at the University of Minnesota, who wrote a book about insects, "Sex on Six Legs," whether she had stayed with insects, or one variety of insect.

Related sites Insects, sex, and parasites group (researchers' Web page) Knell's home page.

It should work, they say and it did in cage trials because Wolbachia plays weird tricks on insects' sex lives, helping it spread like wildfire.