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Insect-infested, the expression 'insect-infested' was not defined in the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act and has, therefore, to be given its ordinary meaning. The word 'infest' appears to have been derived from the latin word 'infestate' which meant 'to assail or molest'. According to the Oxford English Dictionary (Volume V at page 259) the word 'infest' means 'To attack assail, annoy or trouble (a person or thing) in a persistent manner', 'to visit persistently or in large number for purposes of destruction or plunder', 'to swarm in or about, so as to be troublesome'. In the same dictionary the word 'infestation' is stated to mean: 'The action of infesting, assailing, harassing, or molesting'. It is also mentioned that the word is now used especially for 'insects which attack plants, grain, etc. in large swarms'. Thus an article of food would be 'insect-infested', if it has been attacked by insects in swarms or numbers, Municipal Corporation of Delhi v. Kacheroo Mal, AIR 1976 SC 3...
Destructive insects
Destructive insects. In order to prevent the introduction and spread of any insect, fungus, or other pest destructive to agricultural or horticultural crops, the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries may, by virtue of the Destructive Insects and Pests Act, 1907, make orders and exercise powers similar to those given by the (English) Destructive Insects Act, 1877. The (English) Forestry Act, 1919, transfers these powers to the Forestry Commissioners in so far as they relate to timber and forest trees. See COLORADO BEETLE....
Insected
Pertaining to having the nature of or resembling an insect...
Larva
Any young insect from the time that it hatches from the egg until it becomes a pupa or chrysalis During this time it usually molts several times and may change its form or color each time The larvaelig of many insects are much like the adults in form and habits but have no trace of wings the rudimentary wings appearing only in the pupa stage In other groups of insects the larvaelig are totally unlike the parents in structure and habits and are called caterpillars grubs maggots etc...
Phasmid
Any orthopterous insect of the family Phasmidaelig as a leaf insect or a stick insect...
Infest
Infest, according to Webster's New World Diction-ary 'infest' means 'to overrun or inhabit in large numbers, usually so as to be harmful or bother-some, swarm in or about'. According to that dictionary an 'insect' means 'any of a large group of small invertebrate animals characterised, in the adult state, by division of the body into head, thorax, and abdomen, three pairs of membranous wings: beetles, bees, flies, wasps, mosquitoes, etc. are insects'. According to the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 'worm' means 'a slender, creeping, naked, limbless animal usually brown or reddish with a soft body divided into a series of segments; an earthworm'. According to that dictionary an 'insect' means 'a small invertebrate animal, usually having a body divided into segments, and several pairs of legs, and often winged'. According to Webster's Illustrated Contemporary Dictionary (Encyclopedic Edition), 'infest' means 'to overrun or spread in large numbers so as to be unpleasant or unsafe', St...
bee fly
any dipterous insect of the family Bombyliidae which eat nectar and in some cases resemble bees Their larvae are parasitic on the larvae of bees and other insects...
Boat bug
An aquatic hemipterous insect of the genus Notonecta so called from swimming on its back which gives it the appearance of a little boat Called also boat fly boat insect boatman and water boatman...
Butterwort
A genus of low herbs Pinguicula having simple leaves which secrete from their glandular upper surface a viscid fluid to which insects adhere after which the margin infolds and the insects are digested by the plant The species are found mostly in the North Temperate zone...
Carabidae
a family of nocturnal terrestrial insects consisting of the ground beetles which feed chiefly on other insects...
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