Sentence examples for some insects are from inspiring English sources

Some insects are predators of others.

These days, of course, some insects are more than an annoyance, with potentially deadly mosquito-borne illnesses like the West Nile virus and Eastern equine encephalitis a growing concern in the United States, and malaria and yellow fever a continuing problem around the world.

Some insects are also the subjects of taboos.

Some insects are particularly good at spatial resolution, whereas others are adapted for vision at low light levels.

Although some insects are known to emit odors repellent only to males, no such substance in a vertebrate had ever been described, Park says.

Some insects are able to utilize the kinetic energy in the upward movement of the wings to aid in their flight.

Despite the pesticide manufacturers' aggression toward Carson and her book, there was mounting evidence that some insects were increasingly resistant to DDT, as Carson claimed.

While the ecological role played by some insects is important for our own survival (bees and pollination, for instance), they seldom get the credit or attention they deserve.

Differences could be attributed to the intraspecific variability of volatile signals to which some insects were sensitive.

The caloric value of some insects is 50% higher than soybeans, 87% higher than maize, 63% higher than beef, and 70% higher than fish and beans (Verkerk et al. 2007).

Characteristic of the wing base is also a small lobe on the anterior margin of the articular area proximal to the humeral plate, which, in the forewing of some insects, is developed into a large, flat, scale-like flap, the tegula, overlapping the base of the wing.