Your case of the wingless insects near the Rocky Mountains is extremely curious. I am sure I have heard of some such case in the Old World: I think on the Caucasus. Would not my argument about wingless insular insects perhaps apply to truly Alpine insects? for would it not be destruction to them to be blown from their proper home? I should like to write on many points at greater length to you, but I have no strength to spare.英文原著 · 《More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume I》
Small and medium-sized dull, dark-olive, or gray birds, with big heads that are sometimes crested. Bills hooked at end, and with bristles at base. Harsh or plaintive voices. Wings longer than tail; both wings and tails usually drooped and vibrating when the birds are perching. Habits moody and silent when perching on a conspicuous limb, telegraph wire, dead tree, or fence rail and waiting for insects to fly within range. Sudden, nervous, spasmodic sallies in midair to seize insects on the wing. Usually they return to their identical perch or lookout. Pugnacious and fearless.英文原著 · 《Bird Neighbors》
"I am acquainted with a philosopher who, contemplating this subject, thinks it not impossible that the first insects were anthers or stigmas of flowers, which had by some means loosed themselves from their parent plant; and that many insects have gradually in long process of time been formed from these, some acquiring wings, others fins, and others claws, from their ceaseless efforts to procure their food or to secure themselves from injury. The anthers or stigmas are therefore separate beings."英文原著 · 《Canterbury Pieces》
There are many pretty little problems to be solved in this connection, for there are insects, such as some flies, that are attracted by smells which are unpleasant to us, like those from decaying flesh and carrion. But there are also certain flowers, some orchids for instance, which give forth no very agreeable odour, but one which is to us repulsive and disgusting; and we should therefore expect that the males of such insects would give off a smell unpleasant to us, but there is no case known to me in which this has been demonstrated.英文原著 · 《Darwin and Modern Science》
The formidable, well-defended ants are as freely mimicked by other insects as the sand-wasps, ordinary wasps and bees. Thus on February 17, 1901, Guy A.K. Marshall captured, near Salisbury, Mashonaland, three similar species of ants (Hymenoptera) with a bug (Hemiptera) and a Locustid (Orthoptera), the two latter mimicking the former. All the insects, seven in number, were caught on a single plant, a small bushy vetch. ("Trans. Lond." 1902, page 535, plate XIX. 53-59.)英文原著 · 《Darwin and Modern Science》
Pishen, s. Flea, any kind of insect: guldo pishen, honey-insect, bee, honey.英文原著 · 《Gypsy Dictionary》
His thumb pressing down on me like I'm an insect-- I don't like it.美剧 · 《Billions》
Is that insecticide keeping the red spider mites away?美剧 · 《Billions》
Oh, so forget about the birds, but big red insects suggest fine dining?美剧 · 《Friends》
Yeah, and, actually, I would've told you, but Cam thought that maybe -- You let me walk around with insects gnawing on my skull, and you said nothing?美剧 · 《Modern Family》
How insect wings generate enough force to keep the flies in the air. how insect wings generate enough force to keep the flies in the air.演讲 · 《How a fly flies ~ Michael Dickinson》