Sentence examples for mysterious insect from inspiring English sources

The women who became ill from the mysterious insect bites had generally worked more overtime than others and had serious family responsibilities that they could not fulfill because of job demands.

Word spread quickly about the mysterious insect-shaped plane that had dropped from the sky.

You creep around a mysterious manor catching insects but also solving the mystery of why the mansion has been abandoned.

Their loud mating calls and carpet of corpses may come as a nuisance to some, but each emergence is exciting for entomologists studying the mysterious, long-lived insects — they spend most of their lives in an immature stage.

Made from the crushed-up cochineal insect, the mysterious dye launched Spain toward its eventual role as an economic superpower and became one of the New World's primary exports, as a red craze descended on Europe.

"Macandal had often entered the mysterious world of the insects," Carpentier's novel explains, "making up for the lack of his human arm with the possession of several feet, four wings or long antennae".

These mysteries remain mysterious.

Jack, or Edward, or Butterfly (he's called that because of a tattoo between his shoulder blades and also because of a more mysterious totemic connection to the insect) is a familiar enough movie type.

Miller has the soaring eye of the epicist and the sly instinct of the satirist, but the decision to tie her exuberant tales together by means of a sexually rapacious insect is a mysterious one.

Paleobotanist Peter Wilf of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, came across Strong's research in 1998, when he was studying a different sort of insect damage--mysterious specks of fossilized material found on 53-million-year-old fossil leaves from Wyoming.

Although much is known about how birds migrate, insect migration is more mysterious, says ecologist Martin Wikelski of Princeton University in New Jersey.