coleoptera

• Guest_fancy feast: and dont be jealous of my nunchaku, coleoptera eater if you see 3 ninja stars headed towards your head, think fast and DUCK Was Joe Vandal here or was that Eagle?? —  Idaho Falls Today! Local Information.
• A number of coleoptera, orthoptera, hymenoptera, and hemiptera give us examples, the habits of these animals never leading them to use their wings. —  Evolution, Old ; New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin
• Again and again I performed this experiment with like results; finally, the little traveller became thoroughly chilled, and, after a fruitless endeavor to again penetrate the skin, ceased all motion and died Many of the coleoptera are good letisimulants. —  The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals
• But these men would find that the earth without worms would soon become cold, hard-bound, and void of fermentation, and consequently sterile; and besides, in favour of worms, it should be hinted that green corn, plants, and flowers, are not so much injured by them as by many species of coleoptera (scarabs), and tipuloe (long-legs) in their larva, or grub-state, and by unnoticed myriads of small shell-less snails, called slugs, which silently and imperceptibly make amazing havoc in the field and garden. —  The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2
• I know all about these coleoptera, because our great cave, three miles below Hannibal, was multitudinously stocked with them, and often I brought them home to amuse my mother with. —  Chapters from My Autobiography

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