potato-bug

The potato-bug idea was not new—late in World War I, a Major Tiverton later the earl of Halsbury, had proposed Colorado-beetle bombings over Germany.

Human Smoke Nicholson Baker 2008

Link face scared the crap out of me … enormous, flat potato-bug moster.

prehistoric trilobites - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

She looks like all my Mom's uncles, who are potato-bug Irish, as Trace would say.

Archive 2005-02-01 Holly 2005

She looks like all my Mom's uncles, who are potato-bug Irish, as Trace would say.

inkblot Holly 2005

This potato-bug is not feared as it was in the past, since farmers have learned to control it in a great measure, but they have only been able to lessen the evil, never to drive it out completely.

Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation Mary Huston Gregory

There is nothing in his record or career to show that he could distinguish between a plague bacillus and a potato-bug.

McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. Various

What with all the women scheming to catch him, he's got about as much chance as a potato-bug turned loose in a chicken-yard.

Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale Harriet L. Smith

At last Jack ventured, "Was it a potato-bug, sir?"

Little Busybodies The Life of Crickets, Ants, Bees, Beetles, and Other Busybodies Julia Moody 1919

I wish you could see him -- his face is so fat he looks as though he had no eyes -- and he has got as much brain as a potato-bug.

The Story of Doctor Dolittle Hugh Lofting 1916

When would I ever see again my old friend the ex-circus clown, and hear him tinkle the "potato-bug" and sing

The Great White Tribe in Filipinia 1914