A cockchafer buzzed by, a moth flew in his face, the music stopped, and little Jon drew his head in.
An early cockchafer buzzed in the Japanese paper with which they had filled the grate, and one of the horses in the stable stamped restlessly.
It is some comfort to know that Lambl’s human case is unique, and that so long as people abstain from eating cockchafer larvæ they are not likely to be infested by Echinorhynchus gigas.
According to Schneider the embryos take up their residence in the grubs or larvæ of the cockchafer (Melolontha vulgaris), a discovery which very readily explains the manner in which hogs become infested.
They are as unlike our idea of a nose as are the little pits on the feeler of the cockchafer which we examined, yet these noses and ours all perform the same duties.
The larvae of the cockchafer are not easily destroyed.
Blanchard saw a carabus seize a cockchafer in the middle of the road, open its belly with its mandibles, and devour its intestines.
It is the Golden Melolontha of Aristotle, who tells us that this unfortunate insect shared with the cockchafer the privilege of amusing children.
It is, then, every three years that we have a cockchafer year like 1865, but in the intermediate years they are never very abundant.
If you amuse yourself with the children's game of making a cockchafer draw small cargoes of stones, you will be surprised at the great weight which this insignificant looking animal is able to manage.
We may conclude from this that cultivation and labour have made the cockchafer more common than it was formerly.
But the cockchafer steers badly when it flies; it knocks itself at each instant against obstacles it meets with.
In the month of April, three years after its birth, the cockchafer emerges from the earth, and commences its attack on the leaves of trees.
After an existence of greater or less extent in the larva state (in the case of the cockchafer three years), the insect changes into a pupa, which remains in a state of complete immobility.
Before taking its flight, the cockchafer agitates its wings for some minutes, and inflates its abdomen with air.
Still the cockchafer kept on humming, and the lark soared higher in its rapturous song.
A cockchafer hummed merrily at Anton's ear, and, high in air, the lark was chanting his evening lay.
Here, too, thecockchafer flourishes; and even on the northern slopes of the Alps, under the very breath of the glaciers, it devours vegetation.
During our Italian tour, my wife and I made an observation which will not have escaped the notice of naturalists; namely, that the cockchafer does not die in autumn.
This bird is the most zealous follower of the ploughman, and by its great number destroys an enormous quantity of noxious creatures--the cockchafer being its most coveted delicacy.
All this the signora understood, and felt much interest as she saw her cockchafer whirl round upon her pin.
The signora spitted him, as a boy does a cockchafer on a cork, that she might enjoy the energetic agony of his gyrations.
The cockchafer did not go away an inch, but buzzed closer to Jerry's head than before.
Just at the end of the village, a cockchafer came buzzing round his head.
And now the cockchaferwho had flown off with little Thumbelina thought he had been rather foolish to admire her.
The cockchafer was charmed with the little maiden.
This story of the cockchafer became a family jest, and later on, after my mother had had four children, I remembered that when cockchafers were referred to she would laugh and say: "No!
These pits are so tiny that they cannot be shown on the antennal leaves of the cockchafer shown in fig.
The leaf-like plates of the antennæ of the cockchafer (fig.
The seal cries in the reeds like the voice of a weeping child, and the cockchafer buzzes on the white wall of the hut.
It is as if a spider would catch a cockchafer in its web.
You must put away from you all remembrance of your human life; among them you would go astray, and fall into mischief and strife and wretchedness--it would be with you as it was with the young cockchafer of whom I told you.
But Maia wasn't so fortunate, and though the cockchafer collected honey from the flowers for her dinner, and told her several times how pretty she was, she could not feel at ease with him.
The cockchafer noticed this, and summoned his sisters to play with her; but they only stared rudely, and said: 'Where did you pick up that strange object?
The red cups that grew in the moss held as much dew as she wanted, and the cockchafer had taught her how to get honey.
He systematically compares Insects with other Articulata, Coleoptera with other Insects, and theCockchafer with other Coleoptera.
The fidelity and love of anatomical detail which characterise the description of the Cockchafer are not less conspicuous in Straus-Dürckheim’s Anatomie Descriptive du Chat (1846).
The Cockchafer is said to be six times as strong as a horse, making allowance for size.
When we are there the cockchafer shall play the harp and the mouse and the bumblebee shall dance, and it may be that the people will be so pleased with their tricks that they will give me some pennies.
Then Barney put the cockchafer and the harp on the table too, and as soon as it had tuned up, it began to play, and the tune was so gay that the very heart danced in the bosom.
The cockchafer was dressed in a tiny long-tailed coat and breeches, and the moment the little man set him on the stile, he drew the stool up in front of the harp and began to try the strings and tune them up.
When he first put the bumblebee and the others on the kitchen table, when the cockchafer began to play and the others to dance, his mother laughed and laughed as she had never laughed before in all her life.
The cockchafer played, the others danced, faster and faster, but not a third laugh could they get out of the princess, and it seemed as though Barney were to lose his head after all.
The cockchafer made a bow to Barney's mother; then he seated himself and began to play, and if Barney had laughed before he roared with pleasure now.
We only once met with the cockchafer in Scotland, at Sorn, in Ayrshire.
The ingenuity of man may thus even procure good out of a very formidable evil, although the mischief done by the cockchafer larva undoubtedly far exceeds the benefit it confers upon its captors in the amount of oil extracted from it.
The common cockchafer is possessed of antennae as strikingly different in form from those of the butterfly, as if they were really distinct organs intended and adapted to serve different purposes.
They take up a menacing and ferocious attitude, and the cockchafer passes to some other plant.
Another very dangerous root-enemy, which is common in this country, is the Cockchafer grub or Whitegrub.
Here comes a cockchafer or other destructive beetle, intent on absolutely devouring and destroying the young flowers.
His name was that of a tiny estate called les Canquoelles, a word meaning cockchafer in some districts, situated in the department of Vaucluse, whence he had come.
There you sit rustling my dress like a cockchafer in a paper-bag, and making me laugh with contempt.
Oh, how frightened little Tiny felt when the cockchafer flew with her to the tree!
Then the cockchafer who had run away with her, believed all the others when they said she was ugly, and would have nothing more to say to her, and told her she might go where she liked.
But the cockchafer did not trouble himself at all about the matter.
Presently a large cockchafer flew by; the moment he caught sight of her, he seized her round her delicate waist with his claws, and flew with her into a tree.
The Cockchafer hummed, as he journeyed along, Some songs he intended to sing to the throng.
You have doubtless observed that the lamellated clava of the antennae of the common cockchafer is much longer and more conspicuous in some individuals than in others--the long clava belongs to the male[802].
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cockchafer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
