beetle
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A three-year-project to help boost sand dune-living rare beetle and toad numbers is to start later this year.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Others include the adonis blue butterfly, the armed nomad bee and the red-tailed mason bee, the shining pot beetle and the large scabious mining bee.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
Japanese red elder plants protect their own survival by dropping fruits that contain Heterhelus beetle larvae.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 12, 2026
Once the beetle turns its own pheromones off, it can’t turn them back on.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2026
“It's all there. I only deducted the glass beetle your brother broke last time. Sign the receipt here. You can write, I hope?”
From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke
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
Plump, dewlapped Judge Caverly beetled through his spectacles in amazement at the couple, said something secret.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
For this outing, Bette reports in a severe uniform, her brows beetled, her mouth a crumpled rose.
From Time Magazine Archive
The great angry cliff beetled over our heads, and on its very edge, far above, we might discern against the gloomy sky the dim corner of a buttress.
From Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess by Reed, Talbot Baines
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
