Bark Beetle - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: bark beetleBark beetle
A small beetle of many species family Scolytidaelig which in the larval state bores under or in the bark of trees often doing great damage...
Colorado beetle
A yellowish beetle Doryphora decemlineata with ten longitudinal black dorsal stripes It has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado and is very destructive to the potato plant called also potato beetle and potato bug See Potato beetle...
Flea beetle
A small beetle of the family Halticidaelig of many species They have strong posterior legs and leap like fleas The turnip flea beetle Phyllotreta vittata and that of the grapevine Graptodera chalybea are common injurious species...
Quillaia bark
The bark of a rosaceous tree Quillaja Saponaria native of Chile The bark is finely laminated and very heavy with alkaline substances and is used commonly by the Chileans instead of soap Also called soap bark...
Sassy bark
The bark of a West African leguminous tree Erythrophlaeligum Guineense used by the natives as an ordeal poison and also medicinally called also mancona bark...
Fire beetle
A very brilliantly luminous beetle Pyrophorus noctilucus one of the elaters found in Central and South America called also cucujo The name is also applied to other species See Firefly...
Goliath beetle
Any species of Goliathus a genus of very large and handsome African beetles...
Colorado beetle
Colorado beetle. A insect indigenous to Colorado, one of the United States of America, so destructive to vegetables that the (English) Destructive Insects Act, 1877 (40 & 41 Vict. c. 68), was passed to prevent its introduction into Great Britain by means of orders (see Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Agriculture') prohibiting or regulating the landing of potatoes, etc., likely to introduce it, and giving powers to destroy crops on which it may be found, and compensation to persons whose crops may be destroyed accordingly....
Bark
To strip the bark from to peel...
Barking irons
Instruments used in taking off the bark of trees...
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