FN#249] The beetle of Khepera, a form of the Sun-god when he is about to rise on this earth.
Osiris is in the water, but Horus is with him, and the Great Beetle overshadows him," and every evil spirit which dwells in the water is adjured to allow Horus to proceed to Osiris.
The second winged symbol of the god consists of a beetle with outstretched wings, which holds between his forelegs the solar disk, and between his hind legs the symbol of the orbit of the sun.
A great Beetle spreadeth himself over him, great by reason of his grasp, produced by the gods from a child.
But I can't bear the Thoughts on't, that the Soul of a Beetle and of a Man should be the same.
Why then you say, that if the Soul of a Beetle should pass into the Body of a Man, it would act as the human Soul does.
There is an Eagle quarrying upon a Hare, and a Beetle interceding to no Purpose; there is a Wren stands by the Beetle, and she is a mortal Enemy to the Eagle.
The victims consenting, the Beetle is then driven against the Wedge, back to back, with a force that "sends him flying.
Thus, a party of boys pitch on two who are unacquainted with the game, and ask them if they would not like to play "Beetle and Wedge.
The fun is to be theBeetle and the Wedge," they explain.
The adult female of this interesting leaf-eating beetle often cuts circular holes in the large leaves of water-lilies, and then deposits her eggs at the margin of these holes on the under side.
When the fresh air supply has been exhausted the beetle comes to the surface, tips the body slightly, so as to bring the region on one side of the body just behind the head, to the surface.
When a beetle plunges beneath the surface, as he often does when frightened, he carries down a small bubble of air between the ends of his horny wings and the tip of his body.
No creature known to man possesses more intense vitality than the dermestes beetle which propagates in the skull of a mummy.
The tiny red beetle that he had placed upon the rose bush existed only by the death of the aphides which were its prey; the spider, too, preyed.
A three-man beetle is a heavy implement, with three handles, used in driving piles, etc.
The beetle was formerly called a buzzard; and in Staffordshire, a cockchafer is termed a hum-buz.
The one holding the beetle then takes the place of the first outside player, that one joining the ring.
The new beetle man, in turn, runs around on the outside and drops the beetle in any hands which he chooses.
It is obviously to the interest of this neighbor to outrun the beetle and escape a buffeting.
The sport of this game depends on the alertness of the players, as not only the one who receives the beetle but his right-hand neighbor must know when and where the beetle lands, and turn quickly for the chase.
Thank you for nothing,' responded the crusty lieutenant; 'you blind beetle you, is it now you see it?
The wounded beetle struggled more and more feebly.
He passed within a dozen yards of a space where a female dung-beetle was devouring the mate whose honeymoon had begun that same day and ended in that gruesome fashion.
One great beetledevouring another was a matter of indifference to Burl.
A greater beetle had come upon the first and slain him.
He shot out of the opening and fell sprawling, awkwardly and heavily, upon the earth below, crashing upon the shrunken shell of a flying beetle which had fallen into the snare and had not escaped.
The jaws of a beetle work from side to side, instead of up and down, and this had made the protection complete in no less than three directions.
A mass of soft and beautiful moth fur was about his middle, and in the strip of sinew about his waist the fiercely toothed limb of a fighting beetle was thrust carelessly.
He visualized himself stabbing food with it as the larger beetle had stabbed the former owner of the weapon he had in his hand.
As sure as you drop that beetle I'll break your neck.
I am anxious to oblige you in any way," I replied; "but do you mean to say that this infernal beetle has any connection with your expedition into the hills?
Driving a peg, with great nicety, into the ground, at the precise spot where the beetle fell, my friend now produced from his pocket a tape measure.
Well, Jupiter picked up the parchment, wrapped the beetle in it, and gave it to me.
Here my friend, about whose madness I now saw, or fancied that I saw, certain indications of method, removed the peg which marked the spot where the beetle fell, to a spot about three inches to the westward of its former position.
Hereupon Legrand arose, with a grave and stately air, and brought me the beetle from a glass case in which it was enclosed.
Let the beetle drop through it, as far as the string will reach-- but be careful and not let go your hold of the string.
I must wait until I see the beetle itself, if I am to form any idea of its personal appearance.
I have the silken thread as fine as gossamer, the cotton thread, the twine, the rope, the beetle and the honey.
For though she had a vague kind of idea that the silk, the cotton, twine, and rope, were to help her husband get down from the tower, she could not imagine what share the beetle and the honey were to take.
Keep the rest of the silk firmly held, and gradually unwind it as the beetle climbs up.
Do you think the beetle was likely to imagine it was on the way to a hive of bees when it began to creep up the tower?
Can you guess how the beetle and the honey were to help in saving Dhairya-Sila?
She thought it was really far more wonderful that a little beetle should have been the means of rescuing him, than that a strong bird should have done so; and she wanted everyone to know what a very clever husband she had.
And now," said Dhairya-Sila, "the next thing we have to do is to take the dear little beetle which was the instrument of my rescue back to the place it came from.
If the beetle had not gone straight up the tower, what do you think would have happened?
Do you see anything very improbable in the account of what the beetle did?
The servant had meanwhile smashed the stag-beetle between two large pebbles, which he afterwards buried in the ground.
Just at that moment however, the servant-man's eyes fell on the ground, where a large stag-beetle was crawling along.
Hence it is easy to understand why most land animals have very finely developed striped muscles, and why a beetle running on the ground has far more numerous muscles than a lobster swimming in the sea.
I list no more the tuck of drum, No more the trumpet hear; But when the beetle sounds his hum My comrades take the spear.
When the weather had moderated a little, and the beetle had rubbed the water out of his eyes, he saw something gleaming.
Here the beetle was put in an old broken wooden shoe, on which a little stick was placed upright for a mast, and to this mast the beetle was bound with a woollen thread.
Not one of them is engaged yet," said their mother; and the beetle maidens tittered again, this time from embarrassment.
The beetle woke up at the noise, and wanted to escape into the earth, but could not.
Well, now I know the world," said the beetle to himself.
The lake was not very large, but to the beetle it seemed an ocean; and he was so astonished at its extent, that he fell over on his back and kicked out with his legs.
I have allowed myself to be taken in," said our beetle to himself.
The beetle clung fast to the mane, and sat there a short time to recover himself.
In the meantime the beetle had been journeying on, and had sailed across the ditch on a cabbage leaf.
Allah sees the black beetle in the black stone and in the black rock.
With this the beetle stepped down into the rich mud.
That stone beetle was placed on my heart to make it keep silent and not tell anything wicked I might have done in life.
An image of the beetle which Egypt held sacred, carved in black stone.
The Beetle got by stealth at the Eagle's eggs, and rolled them out of the nest, and followed the Eagle even into the presence of Jupiter.
Illustration] The Eagle and the Beetle were at enmity together, and they destroyed one another's nests.
Since the beetle turned on him," said Catherine, "we have got on like two little blind mice.
She flushed at hearing herself coolly flung aside like common clay, and her exquisite eyes half filled with tears as she broke out: "I believe you think I'm a beetle because I come from Colorado!
Every year a little, short, stubby beetle gets in them before spring and makes them unfit for use.
The dying back is caused by a beetle which bores into the twigs.
The twigs above the point where the beetle enters dies and then, of course, buds come out from healthy wood below.
Cruel boys on its prickles might spike a Green beetle as if on a pin.
From this fact, one is led to suppose that this minute beetle has an intuitive knowledge of impending death, as is the case with certain people and also certain animals.
After all, if you were small, the grimy beetle crawled on--which was just what you wanted it to do.
For instance, wishing to tell her how he captured butterflies, Peter wagged his hands in the air to indicate the flight of insects, then struck at a phantom beetle with an imaginary net.
For instance, on an average home property I would treat the front lawn, the more valuable piece, with chemicals so that it would be 100% grub-proofed to protect the turf and to take that much turf out of beetle production.
The adult of the pecan weevil[8] is a snout beetle that attacks not only pecan throughout the South but also hickory in the eastern half of the United States.
How are you to reduce the beetle crop on these places, mostly on ground you don't control?
Since the Japanese beetle is here to stay, and to spread, these differences are worth considering where plant materials are being selected for new ornamental plantings.
The Japanese beetle evidently came into this country in the soil about some roots of plants imported to a nursery near Philadelphia nearly 40 years ago.
The female burrows in the soil and attaches her eggs singly to Japanese beetle grubs.
The Japanese beetle avoids shade, except on the hottest days, and its feeding in dense trees shows up most in the tops; its feeding on uniform plantings tends to show up most in the edge rows.
I shall discuss the Japanese beetle as it seems to affect nut culture, and outline our methods of control.
We can see that the birds are a fairly constant helpful factor, but are not to be relied upon to prevent injury occurring in a beetle outbreak.
Now, the other aspect of control is to try to reduce beetle production over the whole area so that you don't have so many beetles flying in to the plants during the summer and you don't have to spray so frequently, if at all.
It coincides with what is already known that extracts of plants preferred by the Japanese beetle have, in general, a higher sugar content, or more of a fruit-like odor than those not attacked.
And don't think you are going to stamp the Japanese beetle out just by spraying all the adult beetles you see each summer on the cultivated plants, because there are lots more on the shade trees, weeds and vines.
