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Sentence Examples These insect swarms cause massive crop losses across the southern and central United States, costing billions of dollars annually. The path leads through open zones of tussocky grasses, silver birches, and woods, honeysuckle swarms up the pines. The USGS has been monitoring St. Helens closely since September 23, when swarms of tiny earthquakes were first recorded. So now seismologists are actually recording the swarms of the earthquake activity from the volcano. The USGS has been monitoring St. Helens closely since Sept. 23, when swarms of tiny earthquakes were first recorded. When the swarms had slackened off it was generally agreed that this was perhaps not a good day to come to the beach. The Geological Survey has been monitoring St. Helens closely since last Thursday, when swarms of tiny earthquakes were first recorded. Well, we already have concepts of smart dust, and self-organising swarms and motes. Mating swarms of golden snow fleas are seen on and around melting snow in June on the summit of Mount Revelstoke. Ubiquitous fusiliers massed by the thousand, with blue triggers, dozens of needlefish and swarms of other smaller reef fish. Great swarms of bigeyes were shoaling on the reef next to swarms of soldierfish, blue-striped snapper and black-sided horse-eyed jacks. Archaean and Proterozoic basement terranes are commonly dissected by swarms of Precambrian mafic dykes. Her belabored breathing is indistinguishable from the sounds of nature, the bullfrog's croaks and the insects' swarms. The minute we drove down into the arid plains, swarms of locusts began hitting our windshield with heavy, wet splats. In northern Mauritania, small swarms have already caused damage to the staple crops millet and sorghum, along with date palms and vegetables. Similar earthquake swarms were recorded in 1998 and 2001, but no explosion occurred in either year, Pierson said. And then we had swarms of earthquakes, which set everybody's nerves on edge. This value indicates a behaviour strongly controlled by intense seismic swarms, rather than by isolated fracturing episodes. In underwater grottoes, hollowed out of the island's jagged rock-face, we discover swarms of good-sized lobster and shrimp. The swarms of gnats and mosquitoes were annoying, but augured well for our hopes of spotting tiny bug-eating birds. Show More Sentences He and pilot Russell Phillips managed to survive 47 days on a rubber raft with no provisions amidst menacing swarms of sharks. During summer at Shoalhaven, several new swarms left his property to set up new hives in the bush each day. Opportunistic feeders, they surface-feed, gulping small schooling fish, pelagic crabs, and swarms of krill when encountered. In 1957 swarms of the Africanized honeybee escaped the quarantine and began to establish colonies. This was the pharmaceutical industry, after all, where swarms of sales reps compete for doctors' attention. Agricultural officials in West Africa say that if the current locust swarms worsen, up to one million people could face hunger. My ringworm worried her more than the swarms of rumors the local gossips were stirring. If you opt for the latter, though, keep a sharp eye out for airborne swarms of gnats. As the swarms subside, mated new queens break off their wings and seek underground cavities in which to begin new colonies while the males die. Some species of woodcreepers forage by following army ant swarms to catch the prey that are flushed by the swarms. The highlight, though, was our encounter with two army ant swarms, the most-sought after phenomenon in Latin American tropics. Vast swarms of locusts have swept over South Sulawesi in the past few days, destroying rice and secondary crops. They watched with mounting concern as swarms of locusts began to sweep southwards from breeding grounds in North Africa. While some locals have ascribed the lights to UFOs, others blamed swarms of fireflies or even glow-worms. Here they lead a nomadic life, following the insect swarms which provide their principal diet. Abundant kink bands deforming foliation and stretching lineation occur in swarms. However, when locust population density is high, they form into gregariously behaving bands of nymphs or swarms of adults. But it didn't take much imagination to picture swarms of tourists eager to frolic in the soft sand and splash about in the tepid waters. Doctors treated her for third-degree burns and welts from swarms of stinging black March flies. The most important equipment was the tropical strength insect repellent to ward off the swarms of march flies. Show More Sentences Then swarms of military personnel combed the area and a tarp-covered flatbed truck rumbled out of the woods. The city swarms with scruffily dressed and, largely, scruffily mannered young people. For eight days they ploughed on through waves and walls of bombs and torpedoes, through unending swarms of screaming Stukas and U-boats. I am unable to open a window in my house as swarms of blue flies come in just as soon as a window is open. Two scrawny dogs and a lone cat are on the prowl, and the air is filled with swarms of ladybugs. Gudgeon love feeding upon copepods, tiny shelled invertebrates that form swarms just above the river bed. Dedicated fundraisers are set to take on everything from swarms of midges to blisters when they set off on a 100-mile walk. The plankton that permeates these waters attracts vast swarms of anchovies, which in turn draw millions of seabirds. The first is a richly layered carpet of sound that swarms out from the speakers, each track picking up pace to an intense climax. Their path was soon beset by swarms of Aztecs, who rolled down rocks from the eminences, and grievously annoyed them with missiles. That's because attacks by swarms of these relentless biting flies cause blood loss, stress, and feed-efficiency problems. The cold and bitter wind raged over the prison island, the morning sky black with swarms of mist and fog. High seismicity levels were also observed in 1894 and 1903, due to swarms in the eastern and southern flanks, respectively, apparently not correlated with eruptive activity. The trade and transportation of queen bees and swarms of bees without a certificate of origin and a veterinary certificate would be prohibited under the bill. The cost of combating these swarms to prevent a public health crisis could be enormous, he adds. The suitcases were soon after spotted by passersby who approached to see swarms of flies. Sakkie Retief, officer for the Graaff-Reinet magisterial district, confirmed that two large swarms, already in the flying stage, were active north of Nieu Bethesda. However, despite their physiological ability to cover large distances, it may be that scout bees of migrating swarms are disinclined to cross hostile habitat. The megalopas return in large swarms to the nearshore waters and estuaries in the spring, where they metamorphose into first instar juvenile crabs. Alasdair McCrone, the artistic director, said the 35-year-old theatre, which has just 43 seats, is located in a wooded area and every summer is plagued by swarms of midges. Show More Sentences Biting insects are at best a nuisance, but imagine an individual in a hut, sick with a high fever and beset by swarms of biting insects to add to their torment. There were swarms of people there, too, all loud and obnoxious despite the librarian's furious shushing, but I'd learned long ago to ignore all of that. Boxing fans everywhere reviled him and sent him swarms of venomous hate mail. However the bees hived over it have never seemed to thrive, and always appeared less active when compared to the other swarms hived at the same time. Sunlight swarms through and over the pale-green saw grass, plays along the surface, dives down to the dark, mucky bottom, and spreads back up to engulf our little group. In the meantime, several distinctly unprosperous regions have reached the brink of total malarial collapse, virtually ruled by swarms of buzzing, flying syringes. It's a food chain that ranges from giant fields and plumes of the basic building block bacteria to curious octopuses and swarms of shrimp and crabs and red-tipped worms. The chief commodity sought is tin, as fine-grained cassiterite in vein swarms related to the emplacement of granitic rocks within sedimentary carbonates. Africanised bees typically attack in swarms that are between three and four times the size of European honey bee swarms, which causes a greater number of stings. Prospective beekeepers need to learn only fundamental skills such as safe handling of bees while collecting honey or when swarms are being transferred to the hives. Electron diameters are imprecise, but not because there are swarms of micro-electron-dust, each particle of which is also a swarm of something even smaller. At times, Rheingold tries a bit too hard to buttress his cogent observations with academic theories that draw parallels between smart mobs and swarms such as ant colonies. A British aerospace company is now working on a top secret flight system which could allow a pilot to control swarms of unmanned planes from the air. Earthquake swarms in 1998 and 2001 did not result in any surface activity. In September, the crevices in the wall are crammed with hundreds of mating pairs of velvet swimming crabs, exciting swarms of fish into a feeding frenzy. When two time travelers fight over something, they employ multitudes of selves to check and countercheck each other until there are swarms of you around. In the open water just off the reef, great swarms of damselfish cavorted, collecting plankton while barracuda cruised by trying to select an easy meal. Lanham's easy, entertaining little book proposes a workable method for fixing long wobbly sentences afflicted by weak verbs and infested with swarms of prepositional phrases. Thousands of bee swarms in the central Eastern Cape have been decimated by a deadly blood-sucking Asian mite which destroys the male drone bees and damages female worker bees. Locust swarms can travel for thousands of kilometres between summer, winter and spring breeding areas and are capable of causing devastating damage to crops. Show More Sentences Such swarms of prophets and rapturists have flown out of those hives in some ages. Had World War II lasted longer, we might have seen swarms of Mixmasters in hostile skies. The primary and supergene sulphide mineralised zone consists of chalcocite, pyrite, and bornite vein swarms which are silver rich. In summer, it grazes on dense swarms of plankton at the edge of the ice shelf. However, the primary geometry of most giant dike swarms is poorly known due to their age and subsequent tectonic activity. In the Gulf of California, they have been observed feeding on swarms of the euphausiid Nyctiphanes simplex. The antbirds survive by tracking army ants, which hunt in large swarms and are capable of killing just about anything in their paths. This species travels north to the waters off the British Isles every year following the swarms of jellyfish that form its prey. Such dike swarms may form a large igneous province and are the roots of a volcanic province. I separate my swarms with my smoke-pole, holding It near the swarm already settled, which will prevent others from settling. Dikes occur in very large individual swarms with particular compositions and orientations. Badgers can easily breach bee hives with their jaws, and are mostly indifferent to bee stings, even when set upon by swarms. In the hot August weather, maggots crawled over the bodies, and swarms of flies descended on the area. Whilst the swarms which surround you are annoying, they do not bite. It is the midges, clegs and ticks you should be on the lookout for. A smoke-pole is quite handy to keep two or more swarms from settling together. We were part way down the peninsula, heading all the way to La Paz, when swarms of scurrying chuckwallas appeared in a rocky area at roadside. Sabine Hauert, Lecturer in Swarm Robotics, University of Bristol, designs swarms of nanobots for biomedical applications. Dikes often form as either radial or concentric swarms around plutonic intrusives, volcanic necks or feeder vents in volcanic cones. People living in the village have told how the swarms appeared very suddenly and how fly spray in the village has sold out. This can result in the emplacement of dike swarms, such as those that are observable across the Canadian shield, or rings of dikes around the lava tube of a volcano. Show More Sentences Nearly a dozen such enterprises now struggle each summer against the vagaries of rough weather and mosquito swarms to bring the Bard to the nation. Aerally extensive dike swarms, sill provinces, and large layered ultramafic intrusions are indicators of LIPs, even when other evidence is not now observable. We had a hard year last year, with the locust swarms and all that. Such swarms are seen in infraorders of nematocerous Diptera. Her research uses machine learning and crowdsourcing to create nanobot swarms for cancer applications such as the detection and treatment of tumours. Sometimes dikes appear in swarms, consisting of several to hundreds of dikes emplaced more or less contemporaneously during a single intrusive event. Interactions between crescent-shaped, or barchan, dunes stabilize the sand mounds and explain how vast swarms of them can persist over time, two new studies find. Examples from Classical Literature Another way is to invert the hive in which the united swarms are to live, and strike the bees of the other hive into it as before. The country swarms with savage Indians, who are jealous of the intrusions of strangers. Grelet was a skilled apiarist, and replenished his melliferous flocks by wild swarms enticed from the forests. The U-boat could not be coped with by the building of swarms of submarines. In the practice of apiculture these secondary and tertiary swarms are always returned to the mother-hive. I have seen acres of flying-fish in the air at once, and great swarms of yellowtail, basking on the surface. They were swarms of lice and fleas, and we did a shikar for them most of the night. In the apiary of one of his parishioners, five swarms lit in one mass. At dark, swarms fill our room, deafen our ears, and irritate our skin. All Europe was producing big guns and countless swarms of little Smallways. The nights were suffocating, and it was almost impossible to sleep, from the swarms of mosquitoes. And Merrie England swarms with makeshift folk and breakdowns. It swarms with wolfish-looking dogs and dirty, unclad children. So, hard upon the uprush of the first German air-fleet, these Asiatic swarms took to the atmosphere. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our People, and eat out their substance. They came in swarms, and from above hurled down insults upon the victor. The ship was one of those iron wool-clippers that the Clyde had floated out in swarms upon the world during the seventh decade of the last century. The fact is, where you strike one man in the English settlements that you can understand, you wade through awful swarms that talk something you can't make head nor tail of. Find more words! 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