- The
Insect-class
gunboats (or
large China gunboats) were a
class of
small but well-armed
Royal Navy
ships designed for use in
shallow rivers or ins****...
-
Scaphism (from Gr**** σκάφη,
meaning "
boat"), also
known as the
boats, is
reported by
Plutarch in his Life of
Artaxerxes as an
ancient Persian method of...
-
symbols of the Five
Poisonous Insects on it to
deter poisonous insects, and
reptiles such as frogs,
lizards and
snakes A
dragon boat racing in San Francisco...
- the Lord Howe
Island stick insect (Dryococelus australis).
Following the last
sighting of the Lord Howe
Island stick insect on Lord Howe
Island in 1920...
- word has also
meaning "queen" (of
insect hive),
which is the most
likely connotation,
since previous missile boat classes were
named Osa and Komar, meaning...
- will
abandon nests if necessary.
Boat-billed
herons feed on
small mammals, amphibians, annelids, molluscs,
insects, crabs,
shrimp such as
Penaeus and...
-
fleet was
primarily crewed by
Gullah fishermen.
Named for the
shrimp boats'
insect-like profiles, Galveston's
Mosquito Fleet continues to dock at Pier...
- The
boat-tailed
grackle (Quiscalus major) is a p****erine bird of the
family Icteridae found as a
permanent resident on the
coasts of the
Southeastern and...
-
freshwater mussels Naiad (
insect), a
growth stage of
certain insects Naiad (moon), a moon of
Neptune A
brand of rigid-hulled
inflatable boat Naiad 18, a Canadian...
-
strident trilled nya, nya, nya.
Boat-billed
flycatchers wait on a
concealed perch high in a tree and
sally out to
catch insects (such as cicadas) in flight...
