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  • Dr. Burmeister, a naturalist who paid great attention to insects, tells us that he once kept a beetle related to the great water-beetle, and saw it devour two frogs in the space of forty hours.

    Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children W. Houghton

  • Willy, "I have often caught beetles that remind me of the great water-beetle, but they are not so large; what are they?"

    Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children W. Houghton

  • In the great Dyticus water-beetle this is done in a curious way.

    Chatterbox, 1905. Various

  • Splash goes the net again, but no water-beetle larvæ.

    Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children W. Houghton

  • Some insects which live in water, such as the water-beetle, breathe air in the same way as their relatives who live on land.

    Chatterbox, 1905. Various

  • But in the beautifully plumed seed of the dandelion, and in the flattened and fringed legs of the water-beetle, the relation seems at first confined to the elements of air and water.

    Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926

  • The topmost one, curiously enough, contained a small crab, together with a large water-beetle at the farther end.

    Edge of the Jungle William Beebe 1919

  • I’ve found a rather rare species of a water-beetle, Dytiscus marginatus; do you know it?

    Chapter VI 1917

  • Ann Veronica watched a water-beetle fussing across the green depths.

    Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story Herbert George 1909

  • I also frequently observed in the lagoon near the Botanic Garden, where the water is only a little less salt than in the sea, a species of hydrophilus, very similar to a water-beetle common in the ditches of England: in the same lake the only shell belonged to a genus generally found in estuaries.

    Chapter II 1909

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