Cetonia

Curculio, Capricorn, Scarabæus, Cetonia, etc., etc., already contain so many closely allied species which shade into each other, are almost confounded one with another?

Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work 1872

Cetonia grub, enlarged upon this refined art of eating which consists in consuming the prey while killing it only at the last mouthfuls.

The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

Rose-chafer (_Cetonia aurata_), an assiduous visitor of the flowers.

The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

The Cetonia-grub [4] has shown us how, with the aid of the hairs and the pad-like excrescences upon its spine, it manages to reverse the universally-accepted usage and to wriggle along on its back.

The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

A Cetonia-grub, pricked away from the centre on a level with the fore-legs, has her right side flaccid, spread out, incapable of contracting, while the left side swells, wrinkles and contracts.

Bramble-Bees and Others Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

I do the same with the desiccated corpses of the cockchafer, the Capricorn, or Cerambyx beetle, and the Cetonia, or rosechafer.

The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

{34} The Scolia is a Digger-wasp, like the Cerceris and the Sphex, and feeds her larvae on the grubs of the Cetonia, or Rose-chafer, and the

The Life of the Spider Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

As one is enough for the Cetonia, the repetition was of no value unless there was

Bramble-Bees and Others Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

A Cetonia grub, which resists the scorpion's sting, even though repeatedly administered, dies in a very short time if I inject a tiny drop of my terrible fluid into any part of its body.

The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

She learns her trade in some way or other, by accident; she knows supremely well how to paralyse her Cetonia-grub with a single dagger-thrust driven into the thorax.

Bramble-Bees and Others Jean-Henri Fabre 1869