beetle
Example Sentences
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In 2024, the beetle was discovered in several canyons in Santa Clarita, putting it just 14 miles from the roughly 600,000 coast live oaks in the Santa Monica Mountains.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 10, 2026
People can also volunteer to survey trees for signs of the dreaded beetle, allowing them to “do something instead of just worrying about it,” Nobua-Behrmann said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 10, 2026
Although officials are only now reporting the arrival, they first found the beetle in Ventura County in the summer of 2024.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 10, 2026
The methylglycosides are also resistant to beetle enzymes that would normally break them down and restore their toxicity through hydrolysis.
From Science Daily • Jan. 1, 2026
But now all I heard was a beetle buzzing past; up the hillside I saw a few fireflies blinking, the first I had seen this year.
From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien
