scavenger beetle

noun

any beetle of the mostly aquatic family Hydrophilidae, having clubbed antennae and long palps, and usually feeding on decaying vegetation

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A water scavenger beetle called cryptopleurum subtile was identified in a survey of woody debris along the River Nethy near Aviemore.

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It is only the second Scottish record of the water scavenger beetle.

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There is nothing to do except to kill the beasts and watch the antics of the scavenger beetle, who extracts a precarious livelihood from the sand by rolling all refuse into little balls and burying them.

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See Insects. instincts of the scavenger beetle, 405.coco-nut beetle, 407.tortoise beetle, 408.

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During the present spring a few specimens of a small scavenger beetle have been captured within the spathes of this plant….

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