...In the case of the insect, the peculiar color is given as compensation for the deficiency of the powers of motion to enable it to elude the notice of birds...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...The scent must be as volatile as ether, for, on irritating the insect with a stick six feet long, the odor is instantly perceptible...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...The town and district of Linyanti are surrounded by forests infested by this poisonous insect, except at a few points, as that by which we entered at Sanshureh and another at Sesheke...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...But the lands both east and west of the Barotse valley are free from this insect plague...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...The anxiety my friends at Tete manifested to keep my men out of the reach of the tampans of the village made it evident that they had seen cause to dread this insignificant insect...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
... Before leaving, I had an opportunity of observing a curious insect, which inhabits trees of the fig family ('Ficus'), upward of twenty species of which are found here...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...The bite of this insect does not affect the donkey as it does cattle...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...Yet this insect is quite timid when away from its nest...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...An insect of prey, about an inch in length, long-legged and gaunt-looking, may be observed flying about and lighting upon the bare ground...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...I made off towardsthem in the canoe, thinking - as I still do - they were some brand newkind of luminous insect...
Mary H. Kingsley 「Travels in West Africa」
...The heat when crossing the desert was great; not a bird nor an insect was to be seen moving through the air; but the nights were beautiful and perfectly still, gentle breezes cooling the air...
W.H.G. Kingston 「Great African Travellers」
...Hopkins, special agent in charge of forest insect investigations, at not less than $100,000,000...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...… It covers both the loss from insect damages to standing timber, and to the crude and manufactured forest products...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...These are merely the most conspicuous of the insect pests that I nowsee daily...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...All you see in your tree-tops is a two-foot flit or glide, now here and now there, as the leaves and high branches are combed of their insect life...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
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