So if there were no insects, I'd just eat lots of cereal and plenty of steak.

所以如果没有昆虫，我还是可以吃到谷物和牛排。

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The orchids cannot reproduce if birds and insects are no longer living in the area.

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And with no money for seeds, and insects attacking her crops, the next harvest is at risk.

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No insects were harmed in the making of our video, at least -- and the lab assures us that ant had a good life before learning the hard way why it shouldn't mess with Harvard scientists.

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No nationwide survey of the insects' numbers has been published since former RAF pilot and school teacher Bob George, who began mapping them in the 1950s, published his Atlas of the Fleas of Britain and Ireland in 2008.

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And understand that even a single wearing (or probably a lot of try-ons with your new sweater) means your natural-fiber clothes (wool, silk, cotton, cashmere, fur including blends) are no longer sterile when it comes to insects.

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