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Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.
Joseph Wood KrutchBoys avoid the bees that stung'em.
Bug-eyed.
With eyes that stick out (e.g. bugeyed with fright)Bug-hunter.
EntomologistBugs are bugs whether they bite or not.
Bugs are not going to inherit the earth. They own it now. So we might as well make peace with the landlord.
T. EisnerBusy as a bee.
Very busy.But on that day I will deal differently with the land of Goshen, where my people live; no swarms of flies will be there, so that you will know that I, the LORD, am in this land.
BibleSource: Exodus 8:22
But the eyes that he liked the least were horrible pale bulbous sort of eyes. "Insect eyes," he thought, "not animal eyes, only they are much too big."
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 8 - Flies and Spiders
Bilbo seeing eyes in the forest
Butterflies are always following me, everywhere I go.
Mariah CareyButterflies come to pretty flowers.
Butterflies forget that they were once caterpillars.
Butterflies store no money.
Butterfly effect.
The phenomenon whereby a small change at one place in a complex system can have large effects elsewhere, e.g., a butterfly flapping its wings in Amsterdam might change the weather in Bangkok. The term was first used by meteorologist Edward Lorenz.Can't kill flies with a spear.
Cats, flies and women are ever at their toilets.
Caution is not cowardice; even the ants march armed.
Crime leaves a trail like a water beetle; like a snail, it leaves its silver track; like a horse-mango, it leaves its smell.
Debugging is the process of testing, finding, and reducing bugs (errors) in computer programs. The first known computer bug was a real bug (an insect) stuck in the electronics.
Die like flies.
To die in very large numbers.Different fields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.
Do not be like the mosquito that bites the owner of the house.
Do not compare a fly with an elephant.
Do not draw your sword to kill a fly.
Do not flay a flea for hide and tallow.
Do not kill a single wasp; for then a hundred will come to its funeral.
Do not make an elephant out of a fly.
Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.
Do what we can, summer will have its flies.
Does a male cricket, for example, know that his chirping attracts females?
Frans de WaalDogs have fleas in order to keep them from thinking about being dogs.
Don't be such a nit-picker.
Nitpicking = Giving too much attention to unimportant details.Don't draw a sword against a louse.
Don't even step on an ant.
Don't look for fleas on others to get them on your own head.
Mind your own business.Don't strike a flea on a tiger's head.
Don't throw your blanket in the fire just because it has one flea in it.
Don't try to get blood from a locust; God didn't put it in there.
Dust does not rise because a dog-flea hops.
Dying flies spoil the sweetness of the ointment.
Eagles don't catch flies.
Eating insects is good for the environment and balanced diets.
Kofi AnnanEven a flea can bite.
Even a fly has its anger.
Even a fly has its spleen.
Even a lion must defend himself against the flies.
Even a one-inch insect has a five tenths of a soul.
Even a one-inch insect has a half-inch soul.
Even an ant can hurt an elephant.
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