beetle

North Carolina's blueberry growers are facing an emerging threat from a destructive beetle whose larvae feed underground, damaging plant roots and potentially killing blueberry bushes.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026

Only by lying in the dust and capturing the beetle at eye level could Whitfield show how much strength its task required.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Part of the scarab family, the beetle has an apt name: they munch on soft-skinned fruits such as figs and grapes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

“There’s a beetle that emerges on the cusp of summer. It has lots of colors. Blue, gold, purple. It looks like a turtle,” she tells a befuddled Rhaenyra.

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026

Emily studied the book on her lap, as if the beetle on the cover might start talking and give them the answer.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

At barely more than five feet tall, and with a bushy white beard and beetled brow, magician James “The Amazing” Randi resembles nothing so much as an angry elf.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 19, 2015

Since quantities of U.S. nursery stock are grown in the most beetled area of New Jersey, the insects would soon have infested the whole U.S. but for a firm Federal quarantine.

From Time Magazine Archive

England was impressed by rugged, eloquent Mr. W. Benjamin Disraeli noticed Webster's "fine brow, lofty, broad, and beetled, deepset eyes."

From Time Magazine Archive

Napoleon, at the Pyramids, thrust one hand over his diaphragm, thickened his neck, beetled his brows, said: "Men, from the summits of these Pyramids 40 centuries look down upon you."

From Time Magazine Archive

On one side the mass rose gradually up by steps and turrets; on the other, the granite beetled into a low cliff springing abruptly from the turf.

From Children of the Mist by Eden Phillpotts

This beetling between England and Ireland would be repeated throughout his life.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 27, 2017

From almost anywhere in La Rinconada, you look up and you see her: La Bella Durmiente, Sleeping Beauty, an enormous glacier beetling above the town.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 13, 2015

His unusual actorly physiognomy—the ruddy, transparent skin, the bulky but far from graceless body, the beetling blond eyebrows—lent itself to all manner of physical and gestural shape-shifting.

From Slate ● Feb. 3, 2014

Each looked like a character the other might have drawn, Maurice with his fireplug body and beetling brows and Robert with his shock of Wild Thing hair.

From Slate ● May 9, 2012

Clive Pike, to my left, eyes beetling bigger than humanly possible, g-force ribbling his face.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell