Sentence examples for swallow bug from inspiring English sources

In Texas, the swallow bug (Oeciacus vicarius) which is common on species such as the cliff swallow is also known to infest barn swallows.

The nurseries were soon filled with a mass of croaking creatures devouring, whole, virtually anything they could swallow — bugs, fish, mice, even other frogs — the wild proliferation continuing until Morgan presided over a kingdom of more than half a million frogs.

We compared philopatry at colonies where parasitic swallow bugs, Oeciacus vicarius, had been removed by fumigation with that at nonfumigated sites exposed to natural levels of ectoparasites.

In rural areas with less bounty, Mr. Harrold's gastronomic adventures included swallowing bug, snake, crocodile, toucan and monkey.

Pitcher plants swallowed bugs in their banana-shaped leaves.

Your nose is a good filter for air, especially while running outdoors, which prevents you from accidentally swallowing bugs.

We are on the phone, and she's just swallowed a bug.

In one design a Venus' flytrap half-swallows a bug; in another, a moth hovers by a manchineel tree.

Then again, some guests felt transported to an episode of "Fear Factor" or maybe Marlon Brando's "I swallowed a bug" scene in "Apocalypse Now".

(Several moments, of course, will end up on the cutting room floor, particularly the one when he swallowed a bug and when he was drowned out by the roar of a passing train in Mount Pleasant).

Viktor looks like he just swallowed a bug.