beetle

• I mean, a stag beetle -- it's got two points for jaws, it's got antennae. —  Robert Lang folds way-new origami
• Something that fluoresced with a weird blue light, a fat round thing that looked like a beetle And the beetle was on the forehead of the dead manservant As John Black watched, horrified, the fat beetle seemed to move across the dead man's forehead. —  093 - The Awful Dynasty
• Almost under Chester's hooves a tiger beetle pounced on a stag beetle, making its kill with merciless efficiency. —  The Source of Magic
• This is why the love of the males is almost equivalent to their suicide; the Gardener-beetle, attacked by the female, attempts to flee, but does not defend himself; "it is as though an invincible repugnance prevents him from repulsing or from eating the eater." —  Fabre, Poet of Science
• The main culprits for this situation are the pine beetle, which is already responsible for decimating tens of thousands of square miles of trees thus far, as well as global warming and widespread fires, which were not kept in check at the time they started. —  Softpedia News - Global

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