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Bats are crucial to the ecosystem, performing extremely valuable jobs like pollination and insect control.

Their nightly flights bring with them the powers to pollinate plants and control insect populations.

When you crush an insect, you have all these long worms uncoiling from the belly.

One of these heroes is an insect-loving contemporary of Charles Darwin, the other a crocodile-wrestling Steve Irwin acolyte.

On the heels of a U.N. report urging more insect consumption, Nina Strochlic rounds up the yummiest.

To the animal whose special finger enables him to catch the insect?

In my house there has never been sufficient food for a solid meal, and I have not land enough even for an insect to rest upon.

The heat of the water destroys the insect and instantly removes the pain of the bite.

This insect is much less in size than the former, and is more convex.

There is a wretched figure of this insect given in the fourth volume of Cuvier's Regne Animal.

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On this page you'll find 34 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to insect, such as: ant, aphid, bee, beetle, butterfly, and cockroach.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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