Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of numerous chiefly dark-colored predaceous beetles of the family Carabidae that are often found under stones, logs, or piles of debris.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A beetle of the family Carabidæ; a caraboid; a ground-beetle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the genus Carabus or family
Carabidae .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of very many shiny black
beetles of the familyCarabidae
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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But life is not only about eating mushrooms and strawberries and laying eggs; there is also danger lurking in the shadows: on the right, a beetle, probably a carabid, is attacking an orange slug.
Archive 2009-09-01 AYDIN 2009
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But life is not only about eating mushrooms and strawberries and laying eggs; there is also danger lurking in the shadows: on the right, a beetle, probably a carabid, is attacking an orange slug.
A 19th century painting of terrestrial gastropods AYDIN 2009
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Diversity variation in carabid beetle assemblages in the southern Finnish taiga.
Effects of climate change on the biodiversity of the Arctic 2009
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Local endemism is quite pronounced with numerous species restricted to single mountains, watersheds, or even single habitat patches, tributary stream banks, or springs (e.g., herbaceous plants, salamanders, carabid beetles, land snails).
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Below ground there is an even more specialized fauna including 20 different types of cave weta (from the Rhaphidophoidae family), 15 types of endemic carabid beetle and New Zealand's largest spider, the Nelson Cave spider (Spelungula cavernicola), with a 12 centimeters (cm) leg span.
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The candidate will investigate the effect of fragmentation on spatial patterns of selected species and invertebrate communities in urban environments; radio-track hedgehogs; sample and identify flying and ground-dwelling invertebrates such as bees, carabid beetles or snails; analyze their functional assemblage with uni- and multivariate techniques and publish the results in international journals.
Archive 2008-06-01 DNLee 2008
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The candidate will investigate the effect of fragmentation on spatial patterns of selected species and invertebrate communities in urban environments; radio-track hedgehogs; sample and identify flying and ground-dwelling invertebrates such as bees, carabid beetles or snails; analyze their functional assemblage with uni- and multivariate techniques and publish the results in international journals.
PhD Position in Urban Ecology DN Lee 2008
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Mean species densities of birds and carabid beetles, on the other hand, were not significantly different between farm types, although the mean abundances of birds and carabids on pre-harvest crop areas were significantly higher on organic than on non-organic farms.
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Mean species densities of birds and carabid beetles, on the other hand, were not significantly different between farm types, although the mean abundances of birds and carabids on pre-harvest crop areas were significantly higher on organic than on non-organic farms.
Archive 2007-01-01 AYDIN 2007
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The carabid beetle Pterostichus melanarius Coleoptera: Carabidae is a predator of slugs.
Archive 2006-12-01 AYDIN 2006
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