“When Betty Bee sets her stinger deep into your skin she forgets she has a barb attached to her stinger that prevents her from pulling it out of her victim.”

“She couldn't help but flinch at the barb aimed directly at her insecurities.”

“He pole-fished pellet to the trees for a mixed bag of carp, ide, barbel and chub.”

“In winter it was fantastic fishing roach, chub, silver bream and slabs with the odd barbel and carp.”

“The lower jaw of the haddock is slightly shorter than the upper jaw and the fish has a small single barbel.”

“When Betty Bee sets her stinger deep into your skin she forgets she has a barb attached to her stinger that prevents her from pulling it out of her victim.”

“She couldn't help but flinch at the barb aimed directly at her insecurities.”

“Even though there is a basic similarity with a flight feather, the peacock tail feather has an unusual barbule structure.”

“Depending on how closely the rods were spaced and how many layers of rods were stacked up, the barbule could appear anything from yellow to green to blue to brown.”

“Long spines are typically located on nodes of the mid-section of the barbule.”

“Shallow water is the best place to find and catch barble and they normally move into these areas at about 10am although they do not keep time well.”

“Along the edge of the barb are numerous barbicels, we refer to them as Velcro hooks.”

“Barbs can be separated from each other and smoothed back into place because barbules and barbicels act somewhat like a zipper.”

“Two sets of barbules branch off from each barb and interlocked by means of tinier barbicels to give the feather great strength and smoothness.”

“In contrast, a flight feather has narrow barbules which do not cover the barbs.”

“That is, the main shaft of the barb, the ramus, has a branching pattern of barbules.”

“Plumage of glandless birds was in significantly poorer condition, with more missing barbules, than the plumage of control birds with glands.”

“There are four barbels in front of the mouth that are used to direct food towards the mouth.”

“The epaulette shark's slender body is slightly flattened with a rounded snout, two short nasal barbels, and large spiracles.”

“They are committed bottom-grubbers, with drooping shoulders, dour expressions, and unfortunate barbels, or chin whiskers.”