The grub of the Pill Chafer or Tumble-dung Beetle (Phanaeus) feeds on the ordure of Mammalia.
A chafer buzzed by, a small black cat played with its tail on some steps in a recess.
The chafer buzzed against his shoulder, gathered flight again, and boomed away.
A clock struck seven, and round the shady lime-tree a chafer or some heavy insect commenced its booming rushes.
That was an evening of rare beauty, and warm enough already for an early chafer to go blooming in the dusk.
Was that Uncle Paul talking in a low tone with his voice getting farther and farther away, or was it that big chafer spinning round and round the room?
He saw the beautiful light of which the old chafer spoke; he thought he could do no better than fly towards it at once.
As the chafer spoke they heard a shrill squeak overhead which chilled them to the very marrow.
Three heroes who are best at grasping weapons in Erin, namely, Sencha the beautiful son of Ailill, and Dubthach Chafer of Ulaid, and Goibnenn son of Lurgnech.
And the Luin of Celtchar son of Uthider which was found in the battle of Mag Tured, this is in the hand of Dubthach Chafer of Ulaid.
This handsome chafer appears towards the summer solstice, almost simultaneously with the first Cigales.
The seven-leaved apparatus is for the Pine-chafer what his long vibrating horns are to the Cerambyx and the panoply of the head to the Onthophagus and the forked antlers of the mandibles to the Stag-beetle.
The qualification albis guttis, white spots, would fit the Pine-chafer well enough, but it is not sufficient to make us certain.
At this season, in the hours of twilight, the Pine-chafer comes every evening if the weather is fine, to visit the pine-trees in the garden.
The sound-mechanism of the Pine-chafer is thus of the very simplest description.
Emma, pointing to the table, where a shining green gold-chafer was gravely walking over the white paper, evidently an escaped prisoner from the pocket of the indefatigable collector.
Of course there could," said Fred stoutly, and went off to lodge his useful persecuted gold-chafer in his cabinet.
This structure you will find exemplified in the common cock-chafer and many others of the Order.
In this case the elevation of the prosternum is before the arms; in others it is between them, as you may see in a Chinese chafer (Mimela K.
Those maxillae that terminate in a single lobe are also often distinguished by the spines or teeth with which it is armed; thus in a nondescript chafer belonging to the Dynastidae (Archon K.
Its surface is often convex, sometimes plane, and sometimes even concave; as for instance in Melolontha Fullo, a rare chafer occasionally found on the coast of Kent.
Another kind of formation is where the lower lobe is only a little shorter than the upper: this occurs in a kind of chafer (Macraspis tetradactyla MacLeay).
The chafer was associated with the sun in Egypt, the broken egg engaged the attention of the thinking in Tibet.
The association goes back to the kheper or chafer of ancient Egypt, which has the habit of rolling along the ball that contains its eggs.
A fierce lunge and a heavy splash and the chafer was gone into the cavern of the open mouth.
May chafer must fly away home, his father is at the wars, his mother is in Pomerania, Pomerania is all burnt.
May chafer in short is the brother of our ladybird.
The rose-bug or chafer should be hand-picked or knocked off early in the morning into a pan of coal oil.
The rose-chafer is often a most pernicious pest on roses, grapes, and other plants.
One of the worst of these ravagers is the grub of the common cock-chafer (Melolontha vulgaris.
The chafer had got loose, and there was nothing but the hum overhead.
They listened: the wood was still; so still, they could hear a moth or a chafer entangled in the leaves of the oak overhead, and trying to get out.
It will be repeated later with the Pine- chafer and the Rhinoceros Beetle, accompanied by the usual atrocious tactics of the Carabi.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chafer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: broiler; cooker; insect; pot
