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But Mr. Carle's sweet patience has its limits; keep him away from the folks who see textbook possibilities in his simple account of an insect's activities during the week prior to metamorphosis.
The Very Busy Author-Illustrator Joanne Kaufman 2011
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When trout are dining on insects on top of the water you want to imitate that stage of that particular insect's life.
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Before you swear off the idea, consider some of the insect's characteristics: The parents and offspring remain in close physical contact for extended periods of time.
Grossest Valentine's Day Gift Ever? Ashley McAdams 2011
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The top of the insect's abdomen engorges the newt's throat.
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When trout are dining on insects on top of the water you want to imitate that stage of that particular insect's life.
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The researchers hope that a fundamental understanding of the insect's biochemistry will lead one day to more lasting control measures.
Why Bedbugs Won't Die Robert Lee Hotz 2011
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The fungus buries itself in the insect's body and works its way out through the insect's head; drains the energy from the its body and kills it.
Myra Chanin: Viagra, Boo! Yarsagumbu, Yeah! Myra Chanin 2012
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The St Mark's fly derives its name from the insect's supposed emergenceon the allotted day of its eponymous saint, 25 April.
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Encased in an insect's shell, Milosich pads about Gregor's sad little room, as Young's Kafka communes with his disfigured creation's psychic pain.
Theater: Peter Marks on 'Kafka's Metamorphosis' by Synetic Theater 2010
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It's 1996 and Hanna Heath book saviour extraordinaire discovers minute artefacts within the binding as she restores the Haggadah and it is these that give the story its foundation, a tiny fragment of an insect's wing, wine stains, salt crystals, a white hair.
People of the Book 2008
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