Insects
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Insects
a fear of itching or of the mites or ticks that cause it.
perception by means of the air, said to be a function of the antennae of insects.
Informal. entomology. — bugologist, n.
the branch of entomology that studies beetles and weevils. — coleopterological, adj. — coleopterist, n.
the branch of entomology that studies the order of insects Diptera, including houseflies, mosquitoes, and gnats.
the branch of zoology that studies insects. Also called insectology. — entomologist, n. — entomologie, entomological, adj.
an abnormal love of insects.
an abnormal fear of insects.
anything shortlived, or of brief duration, especially certain types of insects such as the mayfly.
the condition of having one half of the body male and the other half female, as certain insects. — gynandromorph, n. — gynandromorphous, adj.
the branch of entomology that studies the order Hemiptera, including bedbugs, squashbugs, and aphids.
1. the quality of differing in form from the standard or norm.
2. the condition of existing in different forms at different stages of development, as certain insects. — heteromorphic, adj.
2. the condition of existing in different forms at different stages of development, as certain insects. — heteromorphic, adj.
the branch of entomology that studies the order Hytnenoptera, including bees, wasps, and ants.
a process by which an insect goes through more than the usual number of transformations, as the larva being metamorphosed more than once.
the study of the life of the ichneumon fly.
a substance used for killing insects. — insecticidal, adj.
entomology.
the study of ants.
the capacity or state of becoming sexually mature in the larval stage. — neotenous, adj.
the branch of entomology that studies the order Neuroptera, including lacewings and ant lions.
the branch of entomology that studies the order Orthoptera, including cockroaches, grasshoppers, and mantises.
an abnormal fear of lice. Also called phthiriophobia.
an infestation with lice; lousiness. — pediculous, adj.
any chemical substance used for killing pests, as insects, weeds, etc.
pediculophobia.
the occurrence of several forms or colors in one species of insect. — polymorphous, adj.
1. an action characteristic of some insects of producing a shrill, grating noise by chafing a serrated part of the body against a hard part.
2. the noise so produced. — stridulator, n. — stridulant, stridulatory, adj.
2. the noise so produced. — stridulator, n. — stridulant, stridulatory, adj.
1. a wasps’ nest.
2. a community or colony of wasps.
2. a community or colony of wasps.
communal life, such as that of ants, in which colonies of different species live together but do not share the raising of the young. — xenobiotic, adj.
Insects
See Also: ANIMALS
- Beetles and insects with legs like grass stems —Ernest Hemingway
- A big black ant, shaped like a dumbbell —John Gunther
- Black beetles … crawled in all directions like animated ink —Harold Adams
- Fireflies begin to rise … exactly like the bubbles in champagne —Elizabeth Bishop
- Fireflies dazzle the night like red pepper —W. P. Kinsella
- Fireflies glow like planets in the moist, silent darkness —W. P. Kinsella
- Fleas are, like the remainder of the universe, a divine mystery —Anatole France
- A fly is as untamable as a hyena —Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Insects … crooned like old women —Stephen Crane
- Mosquitoes … as big as mulberries —William Styron
- Moths as large and white as our hands —James Crumley
- Nothing is so like a soul as a bee. It goes from flower to flower as a soul from star to star, and it gathers honey as a soul gathers light —Victor Hugo
- Spiders which floated like cameos in their jars —Pat Conroy
- Yellow butterflies flickered along the shade like flecks of sun —William Faulkner