“A feeding experiment was established to elucidate the extent of granivory and phytophagy among 24 species of insectivorous carabid beetles.”

“Vireos are small, primarily insectivorous passerines that live in forested or scrub habitats.”

“Herbivorous, granivorous and insectivorous birds have a highly specialized, muscular gizzard with an inner lining of hard cuticle.”

“The title symbolically equips the with explosive power and a procreative, insectlike ubiquity.”

“If you see no monarch eggs, caterpillars or chrysalises, trim the plants back now and treat with jets of water or a little insecticidal soap.”

“Many of these sprays contain one or more of a group of insecticidal compounds known as pyrethrins.”

“The insecticidal properties of Derris roots were first discovered in 1848 and the plant was first used against the nutmeg caterpillar.”

“Is it an occasion of worship for some insectile race, or a missionary visitant from somewhere far off in the cosmos?”

“On the opening track, a mournful shamisen wails over a sinister insectile buzz.”

“By the end of the track, only the higher frequencies remain, creating a delicate ringing like the insectile hum of rubbing a finger around the inside of a wet glass.”

“Altogether it was an insecty, odoriferous, screaming, wrangling, jostling throng, to shoulder one's way amongst.”

“But far more than the murmuring and insecty air of the moorland does the wet chirk-chirking of the living shore give one the idea of crowded and multitudinous life.”

“The insectan nervous system evolved from the segmented system of annelid worms, such as the earthworm.”

“The epitome of insectan torture was developed by a 19th-century emir of Bukhara, in present-day Uzbekistan.”

“They are of less frequent occurrence in insects, but the chemistry of the secretion of insectan hairs, to the extent that it is known, can be of interest.”