Sentence examples for known insects from inspiring English sources

These beetles vary in length from 5 mm (0.2 inch) for the smaller species to 12 cm (4.7 inches) for the African goliath beetle (Goliathus giganteus), which is one of the heaviest known insects.

At more than 18,000 feet up, they are the highest known insects.

He writes that studying amber from Cretaceous era deposits, an international team of paleontologists have discovered the oldest known insects engaged in pollination.

There are approximately 1 million known insects, but the true number could be several times this.

It is the largest known insect infestation in the history of North America, officials said.

It is the largest order of insects, representing about 40 percent of the known insect species.

Dr. Hölldobler observes that although ants, bees, termites and other hive-minded tribes account for only 1percentt of known insect species, "this 1percentt makes up 80percentt of all insect biomass".

The oldest known insect fossil for which there is significant remaining structure (head and thorax fragments) is a bristletail (Archaeognatha), estimated to be 390 to 392 million years old.

They analyzed DNA from three different wasp species and checked the sequences against those of known insect viruses.

He searched published research and asked fellow entomologists for suggestions as to what the loudest known insect might be.

The team then compared sequences of the purified genetic material to a library of known insect RNA viruses, looking for bits that might be similar.