... Too late now did she realise that she had deliberately stirred up a mud-heap and sent noisome insects buzzing about her ears... 
Baroness Emmuska Orczy 「The Elusive Pimpernel」
...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」
...Waldo chuckled with intense inward satisfaction as the old hen had done—she, over the insects and the warmth; he, over the old brick walls, and the haze, and the little bushes...
(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」
...This would be his best season, for the flowers all run rapidly to seed, and then insects of every shape spring into existence to devour them...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...I believe that both the English and African insects belong to the same family, and differ only in size, and that the chief part of the moisture is derived from the atmosphere...
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」
...The insects are in a state of coma, but the presence of vitality prevents putridity, or that drying up which would otherwise take place in this climate...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
... Insects are very numerous after the rains commence...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...Here and there, though, you will see a thatched house, its thatch coveredwith creeping plants, and inhabited by colonies of creeping 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」
... Never have I seen anything like the plague of these insects, but the nurses assured me that at the laager itself they were far worse, attracted, doubtless, by the cattle, horses, and food-stuffs...
Lady Sarah Wilson 「South African Memories」
...The insects in or at thenectar could not be separated, and hence have been made an essentialpart of their diet...
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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