cockchafer

• Fabre has proved this: let the temperature suddenly fall twenty degrees: the eggs of Geotrupes and the larvae of the cockchafer or the rose-beetle endure such vicissitudes of temperature with impunity; contracted and stiffened into little masses of ice, but not destroyed, they revive in spring no less than the eel fry, the rotifers, or the tardigrades. —  Fabre, Poet of Science
• The pleasing name reminds one of Michaelmas Daisy (_Chrysanthemum_), Christmas rose (_Helleborus niger_), and the beautiful pasque flower (_Anemone pulsatilla The common beetle called cockchafer is here known only as the oak-web_, and a smaller beetle as fern-web_. —  Notes and Queries, Number 75, April 5, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
• May no brawling mob pelt you, or your friends, when throned, nor hoot down your plays when your soul's pinned like a cockchafer on public opinion! —  The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3)
• The leaf-like plates of the antennć of the cockchafer (fig. 5) have these pits very highly developed. —  Chatterbox, 1905.
• But something like a cockchafer flew past his face. —  At the Back of the North Wind

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