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Example sentences for: insects

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In the humid subtropical climate, thousands of species of trees and plants flourish, as do rare animals, birds, and insects.
So how and why did two families of scale insects tame and domesticate their potentially fractious polar bodies, rather than killing them like normal animals do?
Like ants and bees, armored scale insects are effectively haplodiploid: males transmit only the chromosomes they inherited from their mother, and all of a male's sperm are identical to each other.
, endemic to Tenerife Island, has ornithophyllous, red flowers, pollinated by generalist native birds and insects.
The maggots and other insects, though revolting, also constitute no threat to public health.