For the unfamiliar, a cockchafer could be mistaken for a water ... with tropical flowers and bowls of bugs—crickets, silk worms, bamboo worms and live water bugs as big as a toddler's hand.

The cockchafer beetles prefer manicured lawns ... Last year the college introduced nematode worms to eat the beetles but the plan failed. As a last resort, the turf was dug up in January and ...

Comparative Evaluation of the Gut Microbiota Associated with the Below- and Above-Ground Life Stages (Larvae and Beetles) of the Forest Cockchafer, Melolontha hippocastani. PLoS ONE , 2012; 7 (12 ...

Scientists studied this phenomenon in larvae of the cockchafer (Melolontha melolontha) and their food plant dandelion (Taraxacum officinale). Plants are not entirely at the mercy of their ...

by her Majesty's gunboat Cockchafer, while engaged in trawling with-in the three-mile limit. The trawl was confiscated, but the vessel was allowed to go. View Full Article in Timesmachine ...

It isn't actually a bug and doesn't only fly in May, but the UK's largest chafer beetle is easy to spot. Seen for the first time, an adult cockchafer, or May bug, can cause a bit of a stir and people ...

I HAVE already described 1 the development of the reproductive organs in the male of the cockchafer (Melolontha melolontha L.) and the origin, development, and function of the spermatophore.

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, and the University of Bern, Switzerland, have now demonstrated that a single compound in the latex protects dandelion ...

Cockchafer beetles have all emerged at once, meaning they are appearing in plaque proportions The recent wet weather in Tasmania has been a factor in their appearance The only purpose of the male ...

"Billywitch", a Suffolk term for the cockchafer beetle, will be added in June and "bishy barnabee" - a ladybird in Norfolk and Suffolk - will be included later. Michael Profitt, OED chief editor ...