Bertram Larvan was an inventor who designed a mechanical insect to control insect pests.

Soon, he had an army of mechanical insects.

They were incredibly small mechanical insects that were more versatile and were able to convert other lifeforms into Cybermen partially.

The plot also involves a philosophical dilemma, juxtaposing the values of humanity and the efficiency of mechanical insects.

Locke and Jean were seated in the Archon's office, surrounded by the faint, shadowy flutterings of his thousand mechanical insects.

The key element of the invention is a new micromotor, measuring less than a millimeter in length, that would drive the mechanical insect's legs and pincers.

The white armour dissipates, the mechanical insects fluttering in a cloud above her head.

Christine Burgin presents his impressive reproduction of an 18th-century scientific clock and two dozen small, toylike motorized figures that look like bizarre mechanical insects (Johnson).

More intriguing than the big mechanical insects were the real things in little aquariums in the center of the room.

Cameras clicked like a plague of mechanical insects; electronic flashes stuttered their brief lightning.