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Why, and how, large black chafers have these 48-hour cycles is unknown.
From Science Daily • Jan. 18, 2024
The team's first step was to identify the gene in large black chafers for the receptor that reacts to the female pheromone, which has the seductive name L-isoleucine methyl ester, or LIME.
From Science Daily • Jan. 18, 2024
Moths on the window, fold your wings, Little black chafers, silence your humming.
From Changing Winds A Novel by Ervine, St. John G. (St. John Greer)
The larvae of the chafers are heavy, soft-skinned grubs, with hard brown heads provided with powerful mandibles, three pairs of well-developed legs, and a swollen abdomen.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various
In the cabinet of books and natural curiosities lay the whole New-Year's freight of buzzing chafers, with golden wing-sheaths minus wings,–I mean the gilt Musen-Almanachs.
From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography by Jean Paul