water-beetle

Dr. Burmeister, a naturalist who paid great attention to insects, tells us that he once kept a beetle related to the great water-beetle, and saw it devour two frogs in the space of forty hours.

Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children W. Houghton

Willy, "I have often caught beetles that remind me of the great water-beetle, but they are not so large; what are they?"

Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children W. Houghton

In the great Dyticus water-beetle this is done in a curious way.

Chatterbox, 1905. Various

Splash goes the net again, but no water-beetle larvæ.

Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children W. Houghton

Some insects which live in water, such as the water-beetle, breathe air in the same way as their relatives who live on land.

Chatterbox, 1905. Various

But in the beautifully plumed seed of the dandelion, and in the flattened and fringed legs of the water-beetle, the relation seems at first confined to the elements of air and water.

Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926

The topmost one, curiously enough, contained a small crab, together with a large water-beetle at the farther end.

Edge of the Jungle William Beebe 1919

I’ve found a rather rare species of a water-beetle, Dytiscus marginatus; do you know it?

Chapter VI 1917

Ann Veronica watched a water-beetle fussing across the green depths.

Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story Herbert George 1909

I also frequently observed in the lagoon near the Botanic Garden, where the water is only a little less salt than in the sea, a species of hydrophilus, very similar to a water-beetle common in the ditches of England: in the same lake the only shell belonged to a genus generally found in estuaries.

Chapter II 1909