Translated sentences containing 'insect'

This insect emits a strange noise.

Este insecto emite un ruido extraño.

There are about 900,000 known insect species.

Existen alrededor de novecientos mil especies conocidas de insectos.

We simply cannot completely control its mechanisms, which include factors such as wind and insect movements.

Simplemente no podemos controlar completamente sus mecanismos, en los que influyen factores como el viento y el movimiento de los insectos.

But there are a number of Member States which use filtered honey extensively to remove insect debris, grains of sand and pollen fragments.

Pero hay varios Estados miembros en los que es muy común filtrar la miel para eliminar restos de insectos, granos de arena y fragmentos de polen.

The fly that bit the American Government, if I can put it like that, is more of an electioneering insect rather than a citrus fruit parasite from the Mediterranean.

La mosca, si puedo decirlo así, que picó al Gobierno americano, es más bien un insecto electoralista que un parásito mediterráneo de los cítricos.

Thirty years later, those words are even more true: they buzz in our ears like an insect from which we can no longer escape.

Treinta años más tarde, esas palabras son más ciertas que nunca: zumban en nuestros oídos como un insecto del que ya no podemos escapar.

I will briefly recall the fact that transgenic maize has been made resistant to the larva of a crop-devastating insect.

Recordaré brevemente que el maíz transgénico se ha hecho resistente a la larva de un insecto devastador.

Furthermore, the introduction of insect-resistant genes will make parasites more and more resistant, until eventually we find ourselves without any further biological defences.

Además, la introducción de genes resistentes a los insectos hará que estos parásitos se habitúen cada vez más rápidamente al producto, hasta que nos encontremos sin armas biológicas para luchar.

Using corn which was toxic to insect larvae, for instance, led in fact to those pests becoming resistant to the plants.

Por ejemplo, el uso de plantas de maíz venenosas para las larvas de insectos condujo de hecho a que estos parásitos se volvieran resistentes a la planta.

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