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Definition of Snapping beetle
1. Noun. Able to right itself when on its back by flipping into the air with a clicking sound.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Snapping Beetle
Literary usage of Snapping beetle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report by Oklahoma Adjutant-general's office (1859)
"... and on its under side a large, soft retractile, pro-leg, with six small slender
legs anteriorly; changing to a long, rather flat black snapping beetle, ..."
2. A Manual of Dangerous Insects Likely to be Introduced in the United States by United States Bureau of Entomology (1918)
"... snapping beetle, shining black with cinereous pubescence; length 11-12 mm.
Larva 18-20 mm. long; a wireworm which feeds in the roots of tobacco and ..."
3. First and Second Report on the Noxious, Beneficial and Other Insects of the by Asa Fitch (1856)
"Running up and down the trunk and limbs in June and the fore part of July; an
oblong, brassy-blackish snapping beetle, nearly half an inch long, ..."
4. The American Home Garden: Being Principles and Rules for the Culture of by Alexander Watson (1859)
"The Chrysobothris, or snapper, is described by Fitch as " an oblong, brassy-blackish
snapping beetle, nearly half an inch long, its back under the wings ..."
5. First Report on the Noxious, Beneficial and Other Insects, of the State of by Asa Fitch, New York State Agricultural Society (1855)
"Running up and down the trunk and limbs in June and the fore part of July; an
oblong, brassy-blackish snapping beetle, nearly half an inch long, ..."
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