“Included among the invertebrates are moth flies, wood gnats, midges, punkies, mosquitoes, marsh beetles, and beelike or wasplike syrphid flies.”

“The warble, or bot, flies Hypoderma lineatum and H. bovis are large, heavy, and beelike.”

“Down to the most idiosyncratic detail, all this is familiar: the beelike buzzing seems like a nod to Jack Thayer's comparison of the sounds of the dying to locusts on a summer night.”

“Mr. Gannon loaded the racks inside the centrifuge with two beeless honeycombs, then stepped back and let Julian begin spinning them with a hand crank.”