leaf-beetles

In the denser thickets I would capture the small metal-blue butterflies (Amblypodia) sitting on the leaves, as well as some rare and beautiful leaf-beetles of the families Hispidae and Chrysomelidae.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

During the summer they turn to a diet composed partly of insects and here again they help the farmer by eating the weevils, leaf-beetles, grasshoppers, bugs and wasps that infest his crops.

Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation Mary Huston Gregory

Two rare butterflies of this district are _Dianthæcia cæsia_ and _D. luteago_ var. _Barrettii_; and the largest of the British leaf-beetles, _Timarcha lævigata_, has been taken near Waterford, and at Tipperary.

The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway Robert Lloyd Praeger 1909

Many pupae lie in a loose cocoon formed of a few interlacing threads, as for example the conspicuous black and yellow banded pupa of the Magpie-moth (_Abraxas grossulariata_) and the pupae of various leaf-beetles.

The Life-Story of Insects 1902

Within the one order of the Coleoptera it is instructive to compare the small jumping leaf-beetles, the 'turnip-flies' of the farmer, whose larvae mine in the green tissues, and complete their transformations so rapidly that several successive broods appear in the spring and early summer, with the larger click-beetles whose larvae, the equally notorious 'wireworms,' feed on roots for three or four years before they become fully grown.

The Life-Story of Insects 1902

Other shorebirds that eat leaf-beetles are the Wilson phalarope and dowitcher.

Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation William Temple Hornaday 1895

In the denser thickets I would capture the small metal-blue butterflies (Amblypodia) sitting on the leaves, as well as some rare and beautiful leaf-beetles of the families Hispidae and Chrysomelidae.

The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

On the leaves of a willow tree he may observe leaf-beetles (Phyllodecta and

The Life-Story of Insects 1902

This nimble minute beetle (Fig. 13) belongs to the flea-beetles, (_Haltica_ family,) the same sub-group of the leaf-beetles (_Phytophaga_) to which also appertains the notorious steel-blue flea-beetle (_Haltica chalybea_,

The $100 Prize Essay on the Cultivation of the Potato. Prize offered by W. T. Wylie and awarded to D. H. Compton. How to Cook the Potato, Furnished by Prof. Blot. D. A. Compton 1846