Fog droplets swarmed at his face like tiny, summer insects.

Can you speak of the ocean to a well frog, or of ice to a summer insect?

The night was silent, except for a jarringly out-of-season racketing of summer insects.

The faint hum of summer insects rose again once she stopped, clearing her throat.

The parts were carried off, scattered; summer insects found what was left to be irresistible.

Matt stood, listening to the breeze and the summer insects, letting normality fill him again.

They held each other's hands without exchanging a word, drinking in the sweet night air and the sounds of summer insects.

Only the noise of summer insects broke the silence.

"But the late summer insects fared very badly and there will be knock-ons for them in 2012."

Throughout, the two figures, so small and clear, bore into the landscape with the sharpness of summer insects.