insectary
- noun
- /ɪnˈsɛktəri/
- Specialized
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insectario
- Tomorrow's first supplies of the B. schineri flies for American forests may come from an insect nursery, or insectary, at the ARS Beneficial Insects Introduction Research Unit in Newark, Delaware.
- an insectary garden
Examples
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They’re overseeing construction of a state-of-the-art insectary for the production of the thousands of mosquitoes of several species that will be needed each week.
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Now, three insectaries in Europe are mass-rearing the insect and selling it there and in the United States.
Academic text (1997) -
Late in 1995, some of Minkenberg's research funding came from Beneficial Insectary of Oak Run, California.
Academic text (1997) -
APHIS and the Guatemalan government run that insectary.
Academic text (2000) -
It is available from insectaries worldwide, primarily to protect greenhouse crops.
Academic text (1997) -
Farmers will need billions of Catolaccus wasps, and ARS scientists are closing in on technology that government agencies or commercial insectaries could use to supply them.
Academic text (1994) -
To produce TSL males requires insectary workers to bathe the white, banana-shaped medfly eggs in 97 Fahrenheit water for 12 to 24 hours.
Academic text (2000) -
Early-season releases would be a feasible tool for growers if the wasps become available through commercial insectaries, says Gregory Simmons of APHIS.
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The university established an insectary to study the breeding habits of local butterfly species.
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Students visited the insectary to learn about the different life cycles of insects used in their science projects.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Insectary comes from the simple word insect plus the ending -ary, which means 'place for' and appears in familiar words like library ('place for' books). So an insectary is literally a 'place for' insects, which fits its use for breeding, keeping, and studying them.
