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potato beetle

(Encyclopedia) potato beetle, name for two beetles of the leaf beetle family and for two of the blister beetle family, all destructive to the potato plant and its relatives. Most notorious is the…

click beetle

(Encyclopedia) click beetle, common name for members of the widespread beetle family Elateridae. Also called elater beetle, the click beetle has a hinge across the front of the body that allows it to…

Brewer's: Beetle

(To). To overhang, to threaten, to jut over (Anglo-Saxon, beot-ian, to menace). Hence beetle or beetled brow. Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff, That beetles o'er his base into the…

bean beetle

(Encyclopedia) bean beetle, common name for a destructive beetle, Epilachna varivestis, of the ladybird beetle family. Although nearly all other members of this family are beneficial carnivores, the…

oil beetle

(Encyclopedia) oil beetle: see blister beetle.

May beetle

(Encyclopedia) May beetle: see June beetle.

dung beetle

(Encyclopedia) dung beetle: see scarab beetle.