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The females are wingless and covered in dense hair, often brightly colored in red, orange, or yellow.
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Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 16 Aug. 2024
Smaller animals that are wingless and legless, like worms, frequently attach to passing larger animals like insects and birds to traverse large distances.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 26 June 2023
The wingless middle generation are the ones who conduct suicide campaigns against attacking predators.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 17 June 2010
Locust eggs take just two weeks to hatch, and wingless baby locusts—referred to as nymphs or hoppers and as tiny as a pinky fingernail—cracked open their eggs on Kenyan soil during February and early March.
—Neha Wadekar, Quartz Africa, 10 Apr. 2020
Females, however, molt into wingless nymph-like adults.
—oregonlive, 22 Feb. 2020
Lice are tiny, wingless parasites that feast on minuscule amounts of blood for survival.
—Kaitlyn Pirie, Good Housekeeping, 16 Sep. 2019
A few weeks later, one pilot saw a red-ish, wingless cigar-shape object.
—Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 24 Sep. 2019
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Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 16 Aug. 2024
Smaller animals that are wingless and legless, like worms, frequently attach to passing larger animals like insects and birds to traverse large distances.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 26 June 2023
The wingless middle generation are the ones who conduct suicide campaigns against attacking predators.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 17 June 2010
Locust eggs take just two weeks to hatch, and wingless baby locusts—referred to as nymphs or hoppers and as tiny as a pinky fingernail—cracked open their eggs on Kenyan soil during February and early March.
—Neha Wadekar, Quartz Africa, 10 Apr. 2020
Females, however, molt into wingless nymph-like adults.
—oregonlive, 22 Feb. 2020
Lice are tiny, wingless parasites that feast on minuscule amounts of blood for survival.
—Kaitlyn Pirie, Good Housekeeping, 16 Sep. 2019
A few weeks later, one pilot saw a red-ish, wingless cigar-shape object.
—Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 24 Sep. 2019
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“Wingless.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wingless. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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wingless
adjective
wing·less
ˈwiŋ-ləs 
: having no wings or wings that are not fully developed
wingless insects
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