a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect
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Insect \In"sect\ ([i^]n"s[e^]kt), n. [F. insecte, L. insectum, fr. insectus, p. p. of insecare to cut in. See {Section}. The name was originally given to certain small animals, whose bodies appear cut in, or almost divided. Cf. {Entomology}.] 1. (Zo["o]l.) One of the Insecta; esp., one of the Hexapoda. See {Insecta}.
Note: The hexapod insects pass through three stages during their growth, viz., the larva, pupa, and imago or adult, but in some of the orders the larva differs little from the imago, except in lacking wings, and the active pupa is very much like the larva, except in having rudiments of wings. In the higher orders, the larva is usually a grub, maggot, or caterpillar, totally unlike the adult, while the pupa is very different from both larva and imago and is inactive, taking no food.
2. (Zo["o]l.) Any air-breathing arthropod, as a spider or scorpion.
3. (Zo["o]l.) Any small crustacean. In a wider sense, the word is often loosely applied to various small invertebrates.
4. Fig.: Any small, trivial, or contemptible person or thing. --Thomson.
{Insect powder},a powder used for the extermination of insects; esp., the powdered flowers of certain species of {Pyrethrum}, a genus now merged in {Chrysanthemum}. Called also {Persian powder}.
Insect \In"sect\, a. 1. Of or pertaining to an insect or insects.
2. Like an insect; small; mean; ephemeral.
The only previous excavation of Birka was conducted 100 years ago by Hjalmar Stolpe, a zoologist who came in search of insect fossils in 1871 and stayed 24 years to dig up many of the 2,500 Viking age graves.
In his first dramatic stage role, he portrays Gregor Samsa, a hard-working traveling salesman who wakes up one morning and finds he is turning into an insect, a dung beetle to be specific.
Some animal and insect problems can be averted with pesticides and other products available in garden shops.
Meet van Lenteren's insect.
The measure provides aid for farmers suffering crop losses of more than 35 percent of their expected harvest because of the drought or other calamities such as hail, insect damage or excessive rain.
Polanski won plaudits in France for his interpretation of a man turned into an insect in the 1988 stage version of Kafka's "Metamorphosis" at a Paris theater.
The discovery of two species of the daddy-longlegs insect family in Edgewood County Park may block a proposed 18-hole golf course.
He has worked with Air Vent Inc. of Peoria Heights to develop the repellents and a deadly new bait that someday might provide owners of infested homes and businesses a lethal one-two punch for controlling the pesky insect.
"Our research has shown that the wasps can provid a new way to reduce insect damage to cabbage, broccoli and other vegetables without using insecticides," said entomologist K. Duane Biever of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
They warn, too, that what harms the pest may also hurt other insect or animal life.
IRRI wants to raise the maximum to 15 tonnes by 2010. The institute has made great strides in breeding rice varieties that are resistant to salinity, insect pests and other adverse conditions.
Harry Comstock's wooden bodied Flying Helgramite looked like a deranged insect.
This immunotherapy is most effective in people allergic to pollens, molds, dust and some insect stings.
The bird's decline began in the 1940s when mosquito fighters began spraying DDT over the St. Johns River Refuge marshlands, ruining the duskies' eggs and insect food supply.
Another advantage is that biological pesticides like this one do not affect other insect species. "These are not broad-based poisons.
In that time, the number of animal, reptile and insect species threatened by extinction has risen from 83 to 250, according to the latest figures from last year, he said.
At least one insect expert predicts riders may have to wait until winter for relief.
Scientists say the rain forests also are valuable as a home to an abundance of plant, animal and insect species that live nowhere else, some of which could prove useful in ways no one today can imagine.
And they're eaten by a broad spectrum of society. I've gone to very nice Thai restaurants and they have excellent insect dishes on the menu," Burgett said.
Doctors often don't immediately link those symptoms to insect repellent because they also can be caused by infections, tumors, Reye's Syndrome or other problems affecting the nervous system, says Johnson.
It has always been assumed that insect behavior was determined by instinct, but Lewis said his tests have shown the wasps can be trained.
The CDC said none of the New York-Connecticut cases have been confirmed as DEET poisoning, but the agency recommended not applying insect repellent in large quantities to exposed skin, especially in children.
S.C. Johnson and Son Inc. said it was voluntarily withdrawing its Deep Woods OFF! insect repellent from retail stores because test animals developed tumors in response to an ingredient.
Was there any guarantee, he wanted to know, that the virus - which contains a gene for scorpion venom - would not attack other kinds of insect or breed with wild viruses?
Show adapted the idea from a hand vacuum the University of California developed years ago to test the levels of insect populations.
In addition, trees in areas where the budworm has been present for several years are so damaged that they can't sustain the insect.
Some 20,000, or one in five, insect species are endangered.
The insect originated in Africa and spread to the South Pacific and Central America, scientists say.
When the borer eats the plant the protein becomes toxic and destroys the insect's stomach.
Roasted and eaten whole, it's a favorite in Asia, said Burgett, who's sampled a variety of insect fare.