beetle
Example Sentences
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The beetle, Sceptobius lativentris, even smaller than the ant, turns off its own pheromones to go stealth.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026
Once the beetle turns its own pheromones off, it can’t turn them back on.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026
“So the kind of behavior and cell biology that’s required to integrate the beetle into the nest is the very thing that stops it ever leaving the colony,” Parker said, describing it as a “Catch-22.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026
The scientists next examined how these beetle defenses affect the fungus Beauveria bassiana.
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
