cockchafer

In third grade, he brought in a cockchafer beetle grub for show-and-tell, hoping to impress his classmates.

I don’t know about you, but I’ve never had a cockchafer on my wall.

For the unfamiliar, a cockchafer could be mistaken for a water bug but is in fact a giant beetle.

The humming of the screws overhead dropped an octave and a half, back through wasp and hornet to bumble bee, to cockchafer, to stag- beetle.

To our question of why came his frantic reply: “A cockchafer fell down my pants!”