All the better to recognize sensation caused by other objects, such as, say, poisonous insects crawling up our arms.

As he rose, the swarm of poisonous insects took to the air.

He made it sound like the name of a poisonous insect.

Now she was no more important than some poisonous insect, to be avoided or, if the opportunity came, squashed flat.

On land, as we have seen, a poisonous insect serves the same function.

Nefer watched the dart leave his hand, and fly in like a poisonous insect.

It seemed to come quite slowly, like some poisonous flying insect.

Yet she thought that his was the fatal beauty of a snake or a poisonous insect.

Burning gets rid of the leaves and the poisonous insects.

By masquerading as poisonous insects, they avoid attacks from birds that might otherwise eat them.