What's the difference between insect and insectary?
Insect
Definition:
(n.) One of the Insecta; esp., one of the Hexapoda. See Insecta.
(n.) Any air-breathing arthropod, as a spider or scorpion.
(n.) Any small crustacean. In a wider sense, the word is often loosely applied to various small invertebrates.
(n.) Fig.: Any small, trivial, or contemptible person or thing.
(a.) Of or pertaining to an insect or insects.
(a.) Like an insect; small; mean; ephemeral.
Example Sentences:
(1) Employed method of observation gave quantitative information about the influence of odours on ratios of basic predeterminate activities, insect distribution pattern and their tendency to choose zones with an odour.
(2) Suspensions of isolated insect flight muscle thick filaments were embedded in layers of vitreous ice and visualized in the electron microscope under liquid nitrogen conditions.
(3) After treatment of larvae of instar 1 at preimago stages about 77% of the insects died.
(4) The presence of potential insect vectors and the occurrence of clinical signs are indications of active transmissions.
(5) Spectrophotometric tests for the presence of a lysozyme-like principle in the serum also revealed similar trends with a significant loss of enzyme activity in 2,4,5-T-treated insects.
(6) Radiation inactivation and simple target theory were employed to determine the molecular weight of an insect CNS alpha-bungarotoxin binding component in the presence and absence of a cross-linking reagent, dimethyl suberimate.
(7) Bacillus thuringiensis subspecies kurstaki (Btk) and subspecies berliner (Btb) both produce lepidopteran-specific larvicidal protoxins with different activities against the same insect species.
(8) Phyla as diverse as insects, birds, and mammals possess distinct HRAS and KRAS sequences, suggesting that these genes are essential to metazoa.
(9) Compounds identified as sex attractant pheromones in a number of phytophagous insects were found in a variety of host plants.
(10) casseliflavus from 43.5% of members of the 37 taxa of insects.
(11) This is the first demonstration of a 2-hydroxylated carotenoid in an insect.
(12) Among the most highly expressing transformed plants for each gene, the plants with the partially modified cryIA(b) gene had a 10-fold higher level of insect control protein and plants with the fully modified cryIA(b) had a 100-fold higher level of CryIA(b) protein compared with the wild-type gene.
(13) Expression of these two cDNAs in insect cells by recombinant baculovirus revealed that the alpha 1 subunit, after noncovalent association with the beta subunit, has the same potency as the native alpha subunit purified from the pituitary.
(14) We have examined the organization of the repeated and single copy DNA sequences in the genomes of two insects, the honeybee (Apis mellifera) and the housefly (Musca domestica).
(15) But pipeline opponents say that by moving beetles from the Nebraska sandhills and mowing miles of grass where the insects once lived, TransCanada has illegally begun construction on the project.
(16) The complete amino acid sequence of 147 residues was determined automatically for a major dimeric component (CTT VI) of the insect larva Chironomus thummi thummi (Diptera).
(17) Peptides B and C are isoforms of a 43-residue peptide which contains 6 cysteines and shows significant sequence homology to insect defensins, initially reported from dipteran insects.
(18) The results suggested that allergenic cross-reactivity between some fly species exists, and may extend to taxonomically unrelated insect species.
(19) The species studied were Triatoma infestans, Triatoma brasiliensis, Triatoma vitticeps, Triatoma pseudomaculata, Rhodnius prolixus and Panstrongylus megistus, and 34 to 348 insects were studied in each group (average, 190).
(20) There is evidence that they might predate on our native shrimps, on our insect larvae, possibly fish eggs.
Insectary
Definition:
(n.) A place for keeping living insects.
Example Sentences:
(1) Successful results were obtained with insectary-reared reduviids and Indonesian isolates.
(2) Twelve colonies of Aedes albopictus were maintained at laboratory conditions, with the following results: Insectary conditions--Air humidity: 90-95%; Temperature: 25 degrees C; Blood source: human; Breeding places: Plastic glass or bamboo; Number eggs per female: 36.37; Incubation time: 1 to 6 days; Larval period: 4 to 9 days; Pupal period: 1 to 5 days; Adults life span: females--30.8 days and males--26.6 days.
(3) The colony was reared in an insectary at a temperature of 24-26 degrees C and relative humidity of 60-70% in cages of the size 0.3 x 0.3 x 0.2 m. The development of the species M. zaraptor from egg to adult lasted 19 to 23 days, in S. nigroaenea it was 23 to 25 days.
(4) Successful colonization of Mansonia dives, the principal vector of subperiodic Brugia malayi was established in a field insectary.
(5) Oviposition of controls was subject to seasonal variation despite the relatively uniform insectary conditions.
(6) Progeny of wild females collected from corrals or human bait were reared in an insectary.
(7) Filth fly parasites reared by commercial insectaries were released on two dairies (MO, DG) in southern California to determine their effect on populations of house flies, Musca domestica L., and stable flies, Stomoxys calcitrans (L.).
(8) tritaeniorhynchus under insectary conditions, life expectancy was 28.3 days for males and 59.8 days for females.
(9) Diapausing F1 progeny did not express autogeny after a 42-day simulated winter or after diapause termination periods of 4 days in the insectary or 29 days outdoors during January.
(10) The same F1 progeny expressed 43% autogeny when reared in an insectary under simulated "summer" conditions (25 degrees C, 16L:8D).
(11) They were then maintained (a) in the insectary at 20 degrees C, after rearing at either 20 degrees C or 27 degrees C; (b) at ambient outdoor temperatures, range 12.2-28.9 degrees C, mean 19.6 degrees C; or (c) at 27 degrees C after rearing at 27 degrees C. There was no significant difference in rates of MVE infection or transmission when mosquitoes were reared and maintained constantly at 20 degrees C or 27 degrees C. However, for females kept at reduced temperature (i.e.
(12) provocans reared in the insectary from pupae collected at the study site in 1989.
(13) They therefore built a mini, mobile insectary at the Airs compound in Bamako.
(14) Duration of the whole larval and pupal stage under insectary and controlled conditions was studied.
(15) quinquefasciatus under insectary, outdoor cage and field conditions.
(16) Insectary in a box The Africa Indoor Residual Spraying Programme ( Airs ) have built an ' insectary in a box ', using a 40 foot x 8 foot shipping container.
(17) To investigate the existence of subspecies of Anopheles albimanus Wiedeman in southern Mexico, the egg morphology of specimens obtained from several field populations and from insectary-adapted colonies of uniform pupal phenotype was examined.
(18) Females were then blood fed and the progeny reared in the insectary; autogeny rates among F2 females in 4 families ranged from 0 to 43%.
(19) With the possible exception of a steer manure infusion under insectary conditions, none of the media consistently attracted large numbers of gravid Cx.
(20) The adult progeny of a backcross between a doubly-resistant colony and a fully susceptible colony were exposed in conventional test kits to the standard discriminating dose of dieldrin, and kept in the insectary overnight.