large metallic blue-green beetle that preys on caterpillars
searcher
Noun
a customs official whose job is to search baggage or goods or vehicles for contraband or dutiable items
searcher
Noun
someone making a search or inquiry
searcher beetle
Noun
large metallic blue-green beetle that preys on caterpillars
scut
Noun
a short erect tail
sciara
Noun
minute blackish gregarious flies destructive to mushrooms and seedlings
sciarid
Noun
minute blackish gregarious flies destructive to mushrooms and seedlings
superfamily Apoidea
Noun
bees
sheep ked
Noun
wingless fly that is an external parasite on sheep and cattle
soldier
Noun
a wingless sterile ant or termite having a large head and powerful jaws adapted for defending the colony
soldier
Noun
an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army
soldier
Verb
serve as a soldier in the military
shaft louse
Noun
a louse parasitic on poultry
sheep botfly
Noun
larvae are parasitic on sheep
sheep gadfly
Noun
larvae are parasitic on sheep
sticktight
Noun
parasitic on especially the heads of chickens
sticktight
Noun
any of several plants of the genus Bidens having yellow flowers and prickly fruits that cling to fur and clothing
sticktight flea
Noun
parasitic on especially the heads of chickens
sand fly
Noun
any of various small dipterous flies
sandfly
Noun
any of various small dipterous flies
superfamily Muscoidea
Noun
two-winged flies especially the families: Muscidae
sand cricket
Noun
large wingless nocturnal grasshopper that burrows in loose soil along the Pacific coast of the United States
slave ant
Noun
any of various ants captured as larvae and enslaved by another species
slave-making ant
Noun
an ant that attacks colonies of other ant species and carries off the young to be reared as slave ants
slave-maker
Noun
an ant that attacks colonies of other ant species and carries off the young to be reared as slave ants
sanguinary ant
Noun
slave-making ant widely distributed over the northern hemisphere
superfamily Sphecoidea
Noun
families Sphecidae and Stizidae
snowy tree cricket
Noun
pale yellowish tree cricket widely distributed in North America
sphecoid wasp
Noun
any of various solitary wasps
sphecoid
Noun
any of various solitary wasps
stick insect
Noun
any of various mostly tropical insects having long twiglike bodies
suborder Blattodea
Noun
cockroaches
squash bug
Noun
large black American bug that sucks sap of vines of the gourd family
strawworm
Noun
larva of chalcid flies injurious to the straw of wheat and other grains
strawworm
Noun
larva of the caddis fly
sawfly
Noun
insect whose female has a saw-like ovipositor for inserting eggs into the leaf or stem tissue of a host plant
short-horned grasshopper
Noun
grasshopper with short antennae
seventeen-year locust
Noun
North American cicada
spittle insect
Noun
small leaping herbivorous insect that lives in a mass of protective froth which it and its larvae secrete
spittlebug
Noun
small leaping herbivorous insect that lives in a mass of protective froth which it and its larvae secrete
stink fly
Noun
pale green unpleasant-smelling lacewing fly having carnivorous larvae
superfamily Aphidoidea
Noun
plant lice
snakefly
Noun
predatory insect of western North America having a long necklike prothorax
spongefly
Noun
hairy-bodied insect whose larvae feed on freshwater sponges
spongillafly
Noun
hairy-bodied insect whose larvae feed on freshwater sponges
sweet-potato whitefly
Noun
a variety of whitefly
superbug
Noun
a strain of pest accidentally imported into Florida from the Middle East then spread to California where it is a very serious pest feeding on almost all vegetable crops and poinsettias
superbug
Noun
a strain of bacteria that is resistant to all antibiotics
superfamily Coccoidea
Noun
scale insects and mealybugs
shadfly
Noun
slender insect with delicate membranous wings having an aquatic larval stage and terrestrial adult stage usually lasting less than two days