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insect

[in-sekt] / ˈɪn sɛkt /


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At the hospital, an insect fell from the girl’s shoe, and a staffer saw a cockroach crawling on her, the district attorney’s office said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

"They get up into the mountains and into these caves, where they make this beautiful tiling pattern," said Western Sydney University insect researcher Eleanor Drinkwater.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Painted ladies undertake one of the world's most remarkable insect migrations, travelling from Africa to the UK over several generations, crossing the Sahara Desert and Mediterranean Sea.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

At the opening of “The Buddhist Bug” at the Vincent Price Art Museum on Saturday, guests will see a 328-foot-long orange insect.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

In 1915, Mother Nature added to blacks’ suffering when a tiny insect pest, the boll weevil, spread through the cotton crop, destroying the South’s major source of income.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield

Then suddenly, barely perceptible amid the trees and undergrowth, like insects moving along a cauliflower bud, several tiny white figures popped up on the Ukrainians’ drone footage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

For spring 2027, you created this fantastical garden populated by insects, beginning with a chrysalis and ending with the emergence of butterflies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

During summer peaks the hives become home to about 180,000 of the striped insects.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

The great migration of the Bogong moth was once a yearly feature of the Australian spring, the insects humming down the nation's east coast in their billions as they searched for cooler climes.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

The only visitors the rest of us get are insects.

From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman


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