10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DUNG CHAFER»
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1
Popular Natural History
Chafers of various kinds are a favorite prey with the Hobby, and in several cases
the stomachs of Hobbies that had been shot were found to contain nothing but
the shelly portions of the larger dung-chafer ( Oeotrupes Mercorariiu).
2
International Wildlife Encyclopedia: Rifleman - sea slug
(18 cm) DISTINCTIVE FEATURES Extremely varied; some have large hornlike
structures on head or thorax; metallic sheen; antennae usually short, ending in a
club DIET Scarab larvae: dung. Chafer larvae: plant material. Others: decaying ...
3
Correct English and Current Literary Review ...
dunde-rhead a dunce dander-headed dunderpate dunder-whelp a dunderhead
dun-driver dunfiish dung-bath used in dyeing dung-beetle dung-chafer an insert
dung-fly dung-fork dunghill dung-hook dung-hunter a bird dung-yard d'unrobin a
...
Josephine Turck Baker,
1906
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Transactions of the Philological Society
Sussex a sham-bug; in the North a scarn-bee, and in modern times is not
unfrequently termed a dung-chafer (Kirby). Compare the Swed. torndyfwel.
Mouffet, in his "Theatre of Insects", remarks that it is called "in English, Dung-
beetle, ...
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Transactions of the Philological Society
A Sussex a sham-bug; in the North a scam-bee, and in modern times is not
unfrequently termed a dung-chafer (Kirby). Compare the Swed. torndgfwel.
Mouffet, in his “Theatre of Insects”, remarks that it is called “in English, Dung-
beetle, ...
Philological Society (London),
1858
6
A botanical ladder for the young
The attitudes which insects assume, to screen themselves from danger, are very
remarkable. You see the mode the dung-chafer adopts. The tree-chafer elevates
its posterior legs into the air, with the same view ; many beetles, especially those
...
7
An Introduction to Entomology, Or, Elements of the Natural ...
Amongst the beetle tribes (Coleoptera), none is more noticed, or more celebrated
for " wheeling its droniug flight," than the common dung-chafer (Scarabceusster'
corarius, L.) and its affinities. Linne allirms — but the prognostic sometimes fails ...
William Kirby, William Spence,
1817
8
An Introduction to Entomology: Or, Elements of the Natural ...
The common dung-chafer (Geotrupes stercorarius)— wheeling from side to side
like the humble-bee — flies with great rapidity and force, and, with all its dung-
devouring confederates, directs its flight with the utmost certainty, and probably ...
William Kirby, William Spence,
1843
9
Promise of the Rainbow Through My Tears
Memory- Where we like dung- chafer- scarab Roll our thoughts into neat tight
balls, And tunnel our deeds where only we can find A dwelling place for our
private lives of skulls and bones. Memory. Droppings beneath the soul of our
shoe- ...
Richard Claude Valdez,
2011
10
The Annual Register: World Events ...
... against the attacks of their enemies. Those insects which live in republics, yield
doubtless to many others in size, strength, and swiftness. Nature, in a lower
degree, produces its monsters ; the spider, dung-chafer, rove-beetle, scorpion,
like ...