sexton beetle in English

noun

(Zoology) burying beetle, gravedigger, any type of black or black and orange beetles that bury dead mice or the carcasses of small animals

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1. Burial of a mouse by sexton beetles, Microphorus species.

2. A bark beetle.

3. The sexton came up and told him to be quiet.

4. Anne Sexton is the most important confessional poet in America.

5. New Bugs include the Atlas moth, Paper kite butterfly, Great purple emperor, Madagascan sunset moth, Damselfly, Blue weevil beetle, Common bluebottle, Drone beetle, Earth-boring dung beetle, Man-faced stink bug, and Rosalia batesi beetle

6. Chafer definition, any scarabaeid beetle

7. Massaging's good for beetle crushers.

8. In the last lived old Mr Piggott, the sexton of St Andrew's.

9. The old sexton soon got better, and was about to work again.

10. Anthia sexguttata, or the six-spot ground beetle, is a beetle of the Family Carabidae.

11. English: The wasp beetle, Clytus Arietis, is a wasp-mimicking longhorn beetle species in the genus Clytus.

12. Look at the beautiful beetle!

13. Beetle Borers usually only attack stressed …

14. He trod the golden beetle underfoot.

15. It actually is a Japanese beetle.

16. Darwin’s assailant was the bombardier beetle.

17. Anthobian - A beetle which feeds on flowers

18. Carabus creutzeri is a species of beetle.

19. The weevil is a shiny, cylindrical beetle.

20. 4 Earwig is a kind of beetle.

21. He carelessly trod the lady beetle underfoot.

22. Listen to what the beetle is saying."

23. 2 He trod the golden beetle underfoot.

24. Anthobian - A beetle which feeds on flowers

25. The old sexton, leaning on a crutch, was taking the air at his cottage door.