insect
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Appetite for insect protein is early evidence of an El Niño shock wave across pockets of the global economy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
For Innovafeed, the priority isn’t maximizing prices but attracting long-term customers of insect protein, Ray said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
As a result, the evolutionary path, anatomical innovations, and ecological adaptations involved in insect terrestrialization have remained poorly understood.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
Among the most common genetic traces in Neanderthal tartar were remains from Diptera, the insect group that includes flies and mosquitoes.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
“Ooo, Emma, this is like when you built that mechanical insect for me,” Finn squeal-whispered.
From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Stressed trees become susceptible to insects and disease.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Scientists have had little direct evidence showing how early insects moved from aquatic and semi-aquatic habitats into terrestrial environments, or how their bodies changed during that process.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
Such structures could later have helped insects exploit a wide variety of terrestrial microhabitats and may have provided an anatomical foundation for their enormous later diversification.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
Their streamlined, fusiform bodies combined features characteristic of hexapods and insects with more primitive ancestral traits.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
Or was everything constantly changing—the insects and the weeds and the wheat?
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
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