cockchafer

It looks like a cross between a man and a cockchafer!

A cockchafer came droning over the hedge and past us.

I could hear the water sizzle, and we spun round like a cockchafer.

Lucy herself said she remembered nothing of the dreadful cockchafer affair.

The cockchafer overwinters in the earth at depths between 20 and 100 cm.

Cockchafer was an 8-gun lugger hired in 1794 and lost in 1801.

The whirring of a cockchafer as it barrelled past his ear, upwards.

In 1939 Cockchafer started the war still on Yangtze River patrol.

She writes rather negatively about him, says that he had held her too tight and his body had looked like a cockchafer grub.

While Widgeon and Cockchafer would provide covering fire.

"Put this cockchafer in irons in your berth deck's foulest corner."

A creature like a great humble-bee or cockchafer flew past his face; but it could be neither, for there were no insects amongst the ice.

It was a cockchafer year.

In 1943, Cockchafer was transferred to the Mediterranean Fleet at Malta.

The boys collect bags full of Cockchafer, which they promptly deposit in their Uncle's (Fritz) bed.

For the first time ever, the lawn was badly ravaged by cockchafer grubs eating the grass roots, and looked brown and sparse.

Three of Germany's largest native beetles live here: the stag beetle, rhinoceros beetle and cockchafer.

Only with the modernization of agriculture in the 20th century and the invention of chemical pesticides did it become possible to effectively combat the cockchafer.

Pests: The Cockchafer with links to images and French and English text.

The Redheaded Cockchafer was first described by Bermeister.

There have been five Royal Navy ships named HMS Cockchafer.

In Bucharest in 1919, he founded the theater troupe "Cărăbuş" (meaning cockchafer).

The large cockchafer, Melolontha pectoralis, which is very rare and occurs only in south-western Germany.

Linnaeus called the European cockchafer Scarabaeus melolontha.