insect
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He spotted the insect when it moved, but even then struggled to separate it from its background through the viewfinder.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Dragonfly is a survivor, just like its insect namesake.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
"Across the country, we've watched preventable conditions -- overgrown stands, insect outbreaks and disease -- turn healthy landscapes into tinderboxes," she said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
Features such as stingers, specialized nesting behaviors and other biological traits may have created conditions that made cooperation more advantageous and helped sophisticated insect societies emerge again and again.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
Maria could visit libraries full of scholarly works and seek out fellow insect scholars, collectors, and artists.
From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman
The birds feed on insects living on rhinos and can also act as sentinels - calling to warn their hosts when danger approaches.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Hundreds of thousands of votes were cast in a public vote, from a shortlist of 18 animals, birds and insects.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
That’s not typical behavior for insects, according to Megan Barkdull, assistant curator of entomology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Eusociality seemed to emerge more frequently among haplodiploid insects.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
All food was eaten uncooked, worms and small insects providing the main diet.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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