They had a play about the lizards, which were pretty and harmless, and they used to count how many different kinds of beetles were killed each night.
Water beetles and other predatory aquatic insects eat the encysted young forms, which then develop in the body cavity of their new and larger host to young Gordiidæ.
What I am really trying to tell is that I found one of the new beetles that are eating the potato bugs.
She and Taro harnessed the beetles with threads to the little wagons.
They played with the beetles and wagons a long time until Grannie said, "Let them go now, children.
They unharnessed the beetles and carried them to the porch.
Beetles were a constant component of the diet in summer.
Other beetles were classified as predaceous or non-predaceous according to the type of mandibles found.
Grasshoppers, second only to beetles in the insect component of the diet, are among the most destructive insects in Kansas.
Many predaceous ground beetles of the family Carabidae would be found under rocks and clods and on the ground.
Scarabaeid beetles were utilized in large quantities when they were most abundant; they made up 28.
Beetles made up more than half of the insect component of the diet.
Grasshoppers and beetles were the two staple foods in the diet at this time, as shown by their high frequencies and high percentages in pellets.
However, destruction of predaceousbeetles is harmful to the farmers' best interests.
The larvae of scarabaeid beetles are destructive to wheat and alfalfa and live in the ground from one to three years before metamorphosing into adult beetles.
In both frequency and percentage, scarabaeid beetles constituted the other important food source.
Nevertheless, grasshoppers and beetles remained the predominant animal-food residues into December and frequencies of occurrence remained relatively high.
If beetles crawl backwards as you watch them it means death from fire or from great height such as flight of stairs, scaffolding, etc.
These beetles are fairly numerous and belong to several quite distinct families; the one which perhaps is amongst the most interesting is a creature called Lomechusa strumosa.
Black beetles scurried over the floor, and once, when they knocked against a deal table standing in a corner, something about the size of a cat jumped down with a rush and fled, scampering across the stone floor into the darkness.
So certain was I of this, that I had descended the stairs, gun in hand, only to find the doors and windows securely fastened, and the mice and black-beetles in sole possession of the floor.
Big beetles passed us humming, and we met some children with lamps swinging, and they sang as they went, to keep away the Nats or spirits of things.
One of a group of aquatic beetleshaving tarsi adapted for swimming.
I had quite forgotten my old ambition about the Shrewsbury newspaper;[295] but I remember the pride which I felt when I saw in a book about beetles the impressive words "captured by C.
I am surprised what an indelible impression many of the beetles which I caught at Cambridge have left on my mind.
As long as I pass a perfectly uniform life, I am able to do some daily work in Natural History, which is still my passion, as it was in old days, when you used to laugh at me for collecting beetles with such zeal at Woodhouse.
I have a vivid recollection of the pleasure of turning out my bottle of dead beetles for my father to name, and the excitement, in which he fully shared, when any of them proved to be uncommon ones.
Archdeacon Watkins, another old college friend of my father's, remembered him unearthing beetles in the willows between Cambridge and Grantchester, and speaks of a certain beetle the remembrance of whose name is "Crux major.
And now I want to know something about your plans; of course you intend coming up here: what fun we will have together; what beetles we will catch; it will do my heart good to go once more together to some of our old haunts.
It seems, therefore, that a taste for collectingbeetles is some indication of future success in life!
Heaven protect the beetles and Mr. Jenyns, for we won't leave him a pair in the whole country.
It was no banana peel, nor pineapple, nor Russia-leather bag, but only a company ofbeetles sipping in the sun.
She pauses, and the ball rests, and both beetles now creep about, shovelling up the dirt here and there with their very queer little flat heads.
The ball is now resting quietly on the dirt, and the two beetlesare apparently rummaging around beneath it, trying the ground with the sharp edge of their shovel-shaped faces.
This strong smell suggested the name Osmoderma, 'scented skin,' given to these beetlesby the French naturalists.
The little water-beetles lay and dozed; but all at once a sudden storm seemed to descend upon them and they scattered precipitately, whirling away in wider and wider circles, only to congregate again just as suddenly, like a flock of sheep.
The active water-beetles were dredging incessantly, releasing leaves and stalks which slowly and weirdly rose to the surface.
The water-beetles and gnats were jumbled together in one muddy mass.
Here two large tiger-beetles were fighting with a poor water-bug.
How Two Beetles Took Lodgings, in Tales of Laughter, is a realistic story which has a scientific spirit and interest.
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The mosquitoes and the gnats preyed upon him; the beetles and the moths were lured by the flame to a violent end.
It brought them in millions, and with them tiny persistent gnats and many small coffin-shaped beetles and hosts of pulpy, unwholesome-looking moths of many sizes and as many colours.
More recently Bates' account has been criticized by Swynnerton[68] who comments on the difficulty of identifying butterfly remains as compared with those of beetles and grasshoppers.
Beetles also imitate bees and wasps, as do some Lepidoptera; and objects the most bizarre and unexpected are simulated, such as dung and drops of dew.
Oh, I've got some cherry pies, And a half a dozen flies, And a kettle full of beetles on to stew.
He stretches and sighs, And blinks with his eyes, Bats at the beetles and fights off the flies.
Upon drawing it up, to my surprise I found a considerable number of beetles in it, and, although in the open sea, they did not appear much injured by the salt water.
Numberless beetles which follow in the track of man, or at any rate are liable to do so, almost everywhere (such as Carpophilus hemipterus, Linn.
He found something physically revolting in that group of beetles whose history had begun and ended in the skull of a mummy.
The brain had not been removed, and quite a colony of Dermestes Beetles had propagated in the cavity.
Cairn grabbed the faded linen, scooping up the beetles within it, and, striding across the room, threw the whole unsavoury bundle into the heart of the fire.
They say, 'Oh, let him go on collecting beetlesand birds.
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