Among the vegetable-feeding chafers we usually find that while the perfect insect devours leaves, the larva lives underground and feeds on roots.
It is particularly remarkable in a New Holland genus of chafers (Anoplognathus Leach).
In many dung-chafers of Latreille's genus Onthophagus, which are said to have occipital horns, as O.
Walking home along the river wall, with the singing of the larks and thrushes, the rush of waters, the humming of the chafers in his ears, he felt that he would make something fine of this subject.
Amongst the soft green pods of a kind of poplar chafers buzzed, and numbers of their little brown bodies were strewn on the path.
She seemed to see her lover and herself setting forth silently along the river wall where they had first met; sitting down, still silent, beneath the poplar-tree where the little bodies of the chafers had lain strewn in the Spring.
The Sarcophagous chafers accordingly take their place between the two.
Their habitation is in dung or under the earth, where they live in the larval state frequently for years before they change; some Chafers eat also leaves of trees and flowers.
It always sits on the topmost part of a bush, and thence looks attentively on to the ground, yet is quite conscious of all the insects and chafers flying about, for it is an alert captor.
It is true that when there is a great abundance of cockchafers it consumes a great quantity of these creatures; but as soon as it finds something it likes better, and is easily obtained, he leaves the destructive chafers to others.
Some, antiquities are seeking, Others are forchafers craving; Many others make bad verses.
There in the south are waiting Far better meals for thee, Than German frogs and paddocks, Poor chafers and ennui!
A different attitude is assumed by one of the tree-chafers (Hoplia pulverulenta) probably with the same view.
When the chafers or petalocerous beetles are about to move, these organs, before concealed, instantly appear, and the laminae which terminate them being separated from each other as widely as possible, they begin their march.
The cockchafers and their near allies belong to the subfamily Melolonthinae, and the rose-chafers to the Cetoniinae; in both the beetles eat leaves, and their grubs spend a long life underground devouring roots.
On the continent of Europe chafers are far more numerous than in the United Kingdom, and the rural governments in France give rewards for their destruction.
During this year, a farmer, near Blois, employed a number of children and the poorer people to destroy the Cock-chafers at the rate of two liards a hundred, and in a few days they collected fourteen thousand.
In Normandy, according to Mouffet, the Cock-chafers make their appearance every third year.
TO A BAT* The sickle moon is in the west And where, against the fading green, A thicket darkles shall be seen The humming chafers on their quest.
These old skulking graychafers are such sly old dogs, they are not to be reckoned on, and no more is the mischief they do.
She wept because she was so ugly--so ugly that the chafers could not live with her.
But there were otherchafers living in the tree, and when they came to see little Thumbelina, they said, "She is not pretty at all.
He would have nothing to do with her, and away he and all the other chafers flew.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chafers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
