| Down to the most idiosyncratic detail, all this is familiar: the beelike buzzing seems like a nod to Jack Thayer's comparison of the sounds of the dying to locusts on a summer night. |
| The warble, or bot, flies Hypoderma lineatum and H. bovis are large, heavy, and beelike. |
| Wearing bulbous sunglasses that gave him a beelike aspect, Shavitz stood by the building's back alley, where he used to park his motorcycle, and remarked that his rent had been just thirty dollars. |
| Included among the invertebrates are moth flies, wood gnats, midges, punkies, mosquitoes, marsh beetles, and beelike or wasplike syrphid flies. |
| The drones, operated by the C. I. A., fly overhead sometimes four at a time, emitting a beelike hum virtually 24 hours a day, observing and tracking targets, then unleashing missiles on their quarry, they said. |
