Sentence examples for wingless insect from inspiring English sources

The silverfish (Lepisma saccharina) is a slender, flat, wingless insect with three tail bristles.

Since then, their research has shed light on the airborne survival strategies many wingless insect species have, and on the question of how insect flight originated.

Having seen an illustration of a bedbug in a newspaper article about them, I recognized the tiny reddish-brown wingless insect with a gasp.

These bugs are not really fleas, but springtails, a primitive wingless insect that can leap long distances using its tail.

The common bedbug — Cimex lectularius — is a reddish-brown, flattened, oval, wingless insect that can grow to three-sixteenths of an inch.

This primitive wingless insect clearly has at least 10 different Osiris genes.

Inspector #7 unearthed wingless insects among the ingredients.

The primitive wingless insects gave rise to a paleopterous stock.

Apterygote, broadly, any of the primitive wingless insects, distinct from the pterygotes, or winged insects.

Bedbugs are small wingless insects that feed on the blood of warm-blooded animals.

Hordes of wingless insects called silverfish poured down the rock in biblical proportions.