beetle
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A research team at North Carolina State University has confirmed that the culprit is Prionus imbricornus, a species of longhorn beetle distinguished by its long antennae.
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
“Dung beetle, dung beetle, you must be afeared, so far from your dung,” they chanted.
From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman
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
I beetled it down to the nearest phone and got hold of my BANning number.
From A Spaceship Named McGuire by Randall Garrett
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
Ahead are beetling rocks and dark blue glancing Amphitrite, surging, roars around them.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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