water-scorpion

The eggs of the water-scorpion I have frequently found; they are of an oval form, with seven long hair-like projections at one end.

Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children W. Houghton

I see; it is a water-scorpion, a very common insect in these drains on the moors, -- indeed, it is common everywhere; let us catch him and take him home for examination.

Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children W. Houghton

A water-scorpion which was put into a basin of water with several young tadpoles killed them all without attempting to eat one.

Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children W. Houghton

Kirby and Spence say that some of the tribe of insects to which the water-scorpion belongs are so savage that they seem to love destruction for its own sake.

Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children W. Houghton

He snatched an infant dragon-fly from the jaws of the water-scorpion, devoured it with pleasure, and then turned his attention to the water-scorpion himself.

"Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character Douglas English

It was on the third day, when both the pieces of gutta-percha tubing were in a wash-hand basin of hot water, and the dragon-fly larva and I were finishing a minnow, with the help of the water-scorpion, that

Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863

Even the water-scorpion moved slowly over a sunny place from the roots of an arrow-head lily to a dark corner under the duck-weed.

Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863

There was very little left now for any one; even the water-scorpion had disappeared.

Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863