Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A rose-beetle. A common species which infests roses in the United States is a melolonthid, Macrodactylus subspinosus, a pest in gardens and vineyards.
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Examples
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The rose-bug or chafer should be hand-picked or knocked off early in the morning into a pan of coal oil.
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The idea that he should create a rose, and then a rose-bug to spile it, ain't reconcilable to what little reason
A Knight of the Nineteenth Century Edward Payson Roe 1863
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The thrips and the disgusting rose-bug were also making havoc here and there.
Nature's Serial Story Edward Payson Roe 1863
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No rose-bug escaped Webb's vigilant search, and the foliage was so often sprayed by a garden syringe with an infusion of white hellebore that thrips and slugs met their deserved fate before they had done any injury.
Nature's Serial Story Edward Payson Roe 1863
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Crop injured by attacks of rose-bug in the spring.
The Biglow Papers James Russell Lowell 1855
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Crop injured by attacks of rose-bug in the spring.
The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855
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In particular years it has been known, in conjunction with the rose-bug, (_Macrodactylus subspinosus_, Linn.,) to swarm upon every apple-tree in some orchards in Illinois, not only eating the foliage, but gnawing into the young apples.
The $100 Prize Essay on the Cultivation of the Potato. Prize offered by W. T. Wylie and awarded to D. H. Compton. How to Cook the Potato, Furnished by Prof. Blot. D. A. Compton 1846
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"If he happens to fancy a rose-bug or juicy ant, he dashes to the leaf or grass-blade on which the insect is crawling, hovers a moment in the air to take aim, and then snatches the bug off.
Citizen Bird Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners Elliott Coues 1870
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