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Home Dictionary Name: beetleColorado 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...
Bark 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...
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....
VerbarMeloe
A genus of beetles without wings but having short oval elytra the oil beetles These beetles are sometimes used instead of cantharides for raising blisters See Oil beetle under Oil...
Necrophore
Any one of numerous species of beetles of the genus Necrophorus and allied genera called also burying beetle carrion beetle sexton beetle...
Cantharis
A beetle Lytta vesicatoria syn Cantharis vesicatoria having an elongated cylindrical body of a brilliant green color and a nauseous odor the blister fly or blister beetle of the apothecary also called Spanish fly Many other species of Lytta used for the same purpose take the same name See Blister beetle under Blister The plural form in usually applied to the dried insects used in medicine...
Doryphora
A genus of plant eating beetles including the potato beetle See Potato beetle...
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