"Cockchafer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... tribes of insects (as well as worms) fed upon by Rooks, some slight idea may be formed of the devastation which Rooks are the means of preventing. I have understood that in Suffolk and in some of the southern counties, the larvae of the cockchafer are so exceedingly abundant that the crops of corn are almost destroyed by them, and that their ravages do not cease even when they have become perfect insects. Various plans have been proposed to put a stop to their ravages, but I have little doubt that ...
— Essays in Natural History and Agriculture • Thomas Garnett
... the sight of cockchafer; and sweet'll Welcome the pilgrim, doomed too long to roam, England's tried sentinel, the black, black beetle With his ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101. October 24, 1891 • Various |
