Sentence examples for beetle about from inspiring English sources

This flea beetle, about 1/16 inch long, is shiny black with a reddish head.

But how do you get in the mind of a glittery beetle about the size of a penny?

The searcher, or caterpillar hunter (Calosoma scrutator), is a common, brightly coloured North American ground beetle about 35 mm (1.5 inches) long.

The lamiids (subfamily Lamiinae) include the sawyer (Monochamus), a gray-brown beetle about 30 mm (1.2 inches) long, not including the long antennae.

As he spoke, a sluggish black beetle, about the half the size of his thumb, slid off the wall and came to rest on its back beside his feet.

The adult beetle, about 10 mm (0.4 inch) long, is bright metallic green in colour with coppery-brown wing covers (elytra), five patches of white spots on each side, and two prominent white tufts on top of the exposed tip of the abdomen.

But beetling about town is a joy.

Rare insects parasitic on wood-boring beetles; about 100 species.

Over and around her drab grey bedroom Aly conjures a kaleidoscopic wonderweb world of projected computer animations, psychedelic graphics and weirdly costumed actors beetling about the stage with purposeless speed.

And so, while Shorter's premodern children were being slaughtered and Stone's crippled, Ozment's — as described in his book "Ancestors" (2001) — were "playing marbles, shooting dice, jumping rope, flying kites, dragging tame birds and reluctant beetles about on strings".

They first correlated air pressure data from a local meteorology station with the behavior of male cucurbit beetles (Diabrotica speciosa), green and yellow beetles about 6 millimeters long that feed on cucurbit vegetables, such as cucumbers, pumpkins, and squashes, in South America.