noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
insect/mosquito/bug etc repellent
stick insect
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young models who look like stick insects are very thin
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
aquatic
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In aquatic insects they are often specially adapted as swimming organs.
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Of those that are known, aquatic insects that winter as immature stages in large ponds probably have the warmest environments.
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They feed on crustaceans, molluscs, aquatic insects , live fish and will scavenge on dead fish.
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A varied diet of earthworms, aquatic insects , shrimps, small fish and tablet foods will keep it in good health.
dead
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Inspectors told of finding a sickening harvest of leaves, grease and dead insects in cupboards and drawers.
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They keep us in jars like dead insects and fail to perceive the pulse of desire.
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Will they eat dead insects or pieces of meat?
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There were also rat droppings and dead insects at the dirt-ridden August Moon restaurant.
flying
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Gregarious, flocks often hawking for flying insects and spiralling up to perform aerobatics.
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But flying insects have much more ancient enemies.
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Gnat and Mosquito larvae, including Bloodworms, can not be bred, as they are the young stages of flying insects .
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Such late flowering plants are an important source of nectar for late flying insects .
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It feeds upon flying insects and the tiny fish that inhabit the Aquasphere.
large
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It is found mainly in timbers less than fifty years old and is a much larger insect than the furniture beetle.
other
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Ladybirds and other insects should be equally welcome.
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Birds become quieter in the afternoon, while butterflies and other insects are more active, feeding on the opened flowers.
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Several other insects attach extraneous objects or material to themselves, but for very different reasons.
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While larger mammals can often adapt, many lovely birds, butterflies, moths and other insects can not.
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And that they registered similar changes when other creatures - insects , spiders and so on - suffered pain in their presence.
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Catch some flies, small moths, mosquitoes or other fairly small insects and keep them alive in a jar.
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In consequence, between 20 and 80% of ovules are killed by pollinators and other insects .
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And vast numbers of other insect species fly throughout their adult phase.
small
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Other foods that can be placed in the compartment include caterpillars and small insects .
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Both make up for the lack of nutrients in the soil by trapping and digesting small insects .
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Others are virtually indistinguishable from the flowers with which they associate - so much so that smaller insects keep settling on them.
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A small green insect with folded wings had settled on her forehead.
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Throw some small insects into the web and find out what prevents them getting out before the spider can catch them.
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Catch some flies, small moths, mosquitoes or other fairly small insects and keep them alive in a jar.
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The cellar was a very unpleasant place, dusty and full of small scurrying insects .
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As he cowered on the ground, a small insect ran from the space station.
social
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Ants are social insects , so their life is a fairly complicated one.
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Are we all just social insects deep down?
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His research focuses on the social insects , especially bees as pollinators.
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Ants are called social insects because they live in large colonies.
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The regimented society of social insects such as ants and bees is an object lesson in order and organization.
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Nevertheless, these volumes have drawn together many little-known areas of social insect and spider biology in lucid accounts.
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Among the social insects dense aggregations occur but without the loss of complex social organisation.
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Volume one comprises eight chapters which introduce social insects and the factors that separate them from their less cooperative allies.
tiny
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And squeamishness prevented me looking for a tiny insect to place on a sticky dewdrop leaf.
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Head lice are tiny insects which live in the hair and feed by biting the scalp and sucking blood.
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The pollen is usually transferred by tiny insects visiting the sweet and colored flowers where these plants are cultivated.
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There are no land animals, apart from some tiny insects .
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Scientists have even been able to distinguish tiny parasitic insects , mites, clinging to the legs of the bigger ones.
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A redshank swept its bill through soft patches of wet mud and breakfasted on tiny insects , shrimps and wriggling worms.
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She shook the sun dress convulsively, dislodging many of the tiny insects .
■ NOUN
attack
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Conifers protect their trunks from mechanical damage and insect attack with a special gummy substance, resin.
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Such crops occur after a dry spell or insect attack and happen only once.
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These will have been pressure-impregnated, and will be resistant to damp and insect attack .
bite
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His only injuries were sunburn, insect bites and chafing caused by spending more than 40 hours in his wetsuit.
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At Ards, doctors have reported an increased number of patients coming forward for treatment for insect bites and stings.
larva
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Unprotected by a shell, they are easy meat for insect larvae and flatworms.
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Both fish prefer live foods, such as worms, insect larvae and small fish.
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Instead they have to consume foods such as shrimps, snails, algae and insect larvae .
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In soft-bodied insect larvae , where the appendages are reduced or absent, locomotion occurs through quite different physical mechanisms.
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In a planted pond the fish will find plenty of algae and insect larvae on which they can feed in order to survive.
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Diet in the wild consists of snails, crustaceans and insect larvae .
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For example, we might imagine a population of unpalatable, but cryptic, insect larvae .
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Although their names make them sound like large predators, they are actually tiny insect larvae .
life
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In the tundra there is a massive growth of ground vegetation and insect life in a very short spring and summer.
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The insect life of the leaves and grass was stilled.
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Those alarmed by insect life should consider holidaying in Skegness.
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Night-time average temperatures would increasingly leave much larger areas frost-free, leading to increases in insect life .
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Silt, washed from deep forestry ploughing, smothers plants, endangering insect life and therefore fish survival also.
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Out of the drone of insect life around us I could distinguish the sound of an aeroplane engine.
pest
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Plants under stress from drought, disease or nutrient deficiency are the most likely to attract insect pests .
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Smaller birds that prey on insect pests also raid fruit crops, which must be netted.
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Also insect pests and diseases increase when the same crops are grown year after year.
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Many birds nest and sleep in hedges and eat insect pests .
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The house longhorn beetle is another insect pest which seems to be confined to parts of Hampshire and south-west Surrey.
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Some plants already possess genetic resistance to attacks by insect pests while others resist certain fungal diseases.
repellent
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I glued up the cat flap. 1 sprayed the letter box with insect repellent .
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So as soon as the bamboos were skinned, the fishermen coated them with a natural insect repellent .
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Vic says not to worry - did I think Father Firmin had insect repellent all those years ago?
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To protect people from being bitten they must be educated and persuaded to use insect repellents and mosquito nets.
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I never went out without my insect repellent and waterproof sunblock.
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Good pine shavings are best as they contain resin, which also acts as an insect repellent .
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So use a good insect repellent and remember to keep re-applying it.
species
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The numbers of damaging insect species resistant to pesticide have multiplied from 160 to 450 since 1960.
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Certain insect species are simply cleverer than we.
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And vast numbers of other insect species fly throughout their adult phase.
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If world insect species totals are as high as 50 million, this would extend to 28,345 species per insect specialist.
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Imagine the myriads of such infrared and other pathways and signals that the various insect species must be utilizing.
stick
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To put it another way, ancestors of stick insects that did not resemble sticks did not leave descendants.
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Children admiring Living World stick insects .
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One of them, anyway - the stick insect couldn't have escaped.
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Eggs, caterpillars, chrysalids, stick insects and equipment are available for sale from the showroom.
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He was built like a basketball player; tall and as thin as a stick insect .
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The initial resemblance of the ancestral stick insect to a stick must have been very remote.
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When I was young I was like a stick insect , then at fourteen or fifteen I put on weight.
■ VERB
attract
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Plants under stress from drought, disease or nutrient deficiency are the most likely to attract insect pests.
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The smell of decay will attract mammals and insects that consider it lunch.
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Phosphorescent fungi attract night-flying insects , such as moths, which perform the same role.
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In some orchids, a mere one plant in fifty attracts even a single insect .
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Perishable food or sweets hidden away in drawers may attract mice or insects or may go off.
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Such blooms attracted several kinds of insects - bees as well as beetles.
catch
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A pair of swifts with a family to feed may catch twenty thousand insects in a single day.
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Reality now was the children catching insects for food, and wartime silence under a high, full moon.
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Then they will suddenly swoop down to catch mammals or sometimes insects or worms.
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The male catches an insect and carefully parcels it up in silk.
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They do not fly to catch insects flying fish are largely oceanic and flying insects are rare over the open sea.
eat
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Bacterial rotting often does not look much like mould. % % % q. Local birds tend to eat little black insects .
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They ate insects and were fun to watch when one was high.
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Will they eat dead insects or pieces of meat?
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A turtle eating the insect that eats the leaf makes a chain of two.
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They are popular with farmers and ranchers, because they eat the insects around cattle.
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The Solenodon eats insects and the occasional bird, reptile or amphibian.
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Other species eat worms or insect larvae.
feed
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They feed on insects , seed and shoots, digging in the snow with well-feathered feet and burrowing for food and shelter.
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The bats leave the caverns at sunset each day to feed on night-flying insects .
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They are also fed intermittently with stunned insects .
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Consequently, the swallows fly progressively higher to feed on the insects .
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Tarsiers feed mainly on insects and their larvae but can catch small lizards, fledgling birds, spiders and forest mice.
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It feeds upon flying insects and the tiny fish that inhabit the Aquasphere.
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The most aerial of all birds, superficially resembling swallows and martins, feeding on flying insects .
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Wild specimens are known to feed predominantly on insect larvae but will also take algae and detritus.
keep
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The cold water cistern should be fitted with a lid to keep out light and insects but should not be airtight.
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The overflow connection should have a filter to keep out insects and an internal dip tube to prevent icy draughts.
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Apart from adding to the pleasure of a wood, they keep down insects which might harm the trees.
kill
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These cells then swell and burst, killing the insect .
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Modern woodworm killing fluids are very efficient and will kill the insects at all stages of their life cycle.
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At least 100,000 fish are thought to have been killed , along with the insects and plants on which they depend.
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Pesticides kill off the beneficial insects as well as the destructive ones creating an imbalance in nature and wasting valuable assets.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Both make up for the lack of nutrients in the soil by trapping and digesting small insects.
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For bees and other insects, social life pays.
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Horton picked the spider up, held it in his palm and asked if the insect was bothering anyone.
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If your child becomes interested in insects, encourage her to focus on a particular insect.
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Is there any reason to believe an insect may have crawled or flown into the ear?
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Spurs occur on the legs of many insects and differ from setae in being of multicellular origin.
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The Percys ate their peanuts one by one, patiently dislodging the insects.