Sentence examples for insects about from inspiring English sources

Flies are minute to large insects (about 0.5 to 60 mm long), extremely variable in form and color, but are mostly rather soft bodied, flying forms.

Antarctic krill sequences generally show a greater similarity to genes of insects (about 36%) than to genes of Malacostraca (about 23%) and only 7% were similar to the known sequences of Euphausiacea.

Mason bees are slender black insects, about a half-inch long, and gentle.

The players fold and writhe again like insects about to shed their wings.

Apart from that I have been to a biology class, talked about mimicry, and two days ago rode with a woman professor and a group of very black young ladies, very intensely chewing mint gum, in a wooden charabanc-cum-automobile to collect insects about twenty miles from here.

By the end of May or early in June, however, it will be impossible to miss what will crawl out of those holes: billions upon billions of bluish-black insects, about an inch long, with red eyes and lacy veins of orange in their otherwise transparent wings, have been resting comfortably underground for seventeen years, sucking sap from the roots of trees and bushes.

The rest of the Wilkinson insects fill about 40 metal drawers in museum storage.

Certainly not big enough to bring in an unnatural insect about which we know so little.

An insect about 3 inches in length with a very long thin tail looking a bit like a sting.

The hairs serve to inform the insect about its surroundings and its body position (a phenomenon known as proprioception).

The most common North American species is the elm sawfly (Cimbex americana), a dark blue insect about 2.5 cm (1 inch) long.