chafer's Usage Examples:

chafer beetle are available from English Nature's National Press Office.

chafer grubs is due to be launched in the UK during April.

The net was also fitted with an illegal top-side chafer which stops immature fish escaping.

The great conservation concern for the welfare of the noble chafer is the continuing loss of old orchards.

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This is followed by a resting (pseudo-pupal) stage, and thisby two successive larval stages like the grub of a chafer.

18, 21 b); the body shortened, with the abdomen swollen, but protected with tubercles and spines, and with longish legs adapted for an active life, as in the predaceous larvae of ladybirds; the body soft-skinned, swollen and caterpillar-like, with legs well developed, but leading a sluggish underground life, as in the grub of a chafer; the body soft-skinned and whitish, and the legs greatly reduced in size, as in the wood-feeding grub of a longhorn beetle.

Stridulating organs among beetle-larvae have been noted, especially in the wood-feeding grub of the stag-beetles (Lucanidae) and their allies the Passalidae, and in the dung-eating grubs of the dor-beetles (Geotrupes), which belong to the chafer family (Scarabaeidae).

Note the large scutellum and shiny appearance compared with the Noble Chafer left.

chafer grub control for over five years.