...[Footnote 1:These insects figure frequently in popular mythology... 
Gustavo Adolfo Becquer 「Legends, Tales and Poems」
...In the evening hush could be heard the buzzing of insects and the croaking of the frogs...
Vicente Blasco Ibanez Charlotte Brewster Jordan 「The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse」
...His eyes appeared to have acquired multiple facets like those of certain insects...
Vicente Blasco Ibanez Charlotte Brewster Jordan 「The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse」
...Then Em moved slowly away from the window, and through it came in spotted, hard-winged insects, to play round the lamp, till, one by one, they stuck to its glass, and fell to the foot dead...
(AKA Ralph Iron) Olive Schreiner 「The Story of an African Farm」
... The scavenger beetle is one of the most useful of all insects, as it effectually answers the object indicated by the name...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...Like most aquatic feeders, they work by night, when insects and fishes rise to the surface...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...The clammy fluid is intended to entrap insects, which, dying on the leaf, probably yield nutriment to the plant...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...The vast quantity of small birds, which feed on insects, show that the river teems also with specimens of minute organic life...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...While waiting by the elephant, I observed a great number of insects, like grains of fine sand, moving on my boxes...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...It consisted of two apartmentsalmost bare of everything save a pile of boxes, and a small fire onthe floor, some little bags hanging from the roof poles, and a generalsupply of insects...
Mary H. Kingsley 「Travels in West Africa」
...It is my own opinion that the insects thus inflicted upon the population were not lice, but ticks...
Samuel White Baker 「In the Heart of Africa」
...The face of the country appeared like a newlyploughed field of a brown soil; for it was completelycovered with these insects, insomuchthat they had devoured even the bark of thetrees...
Abd Salam Shabeeny 「An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa」
...Sun-birdsvisit the pomegranate flowers and eat insects therein too, as well asnectar...
David Livingstone 「The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873」
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