A cockchafer came droning over the hedge and past us.
A cockchafer hummed merrily at Anton's ear, and, high in air, the lark was chanting his evening lay.
Still the cockchafer kept on humming, and the lark soared higher in its rapturous song.
Then there were the moths—tiger moths, yellow moths, and horrid cockchafers.
We put him into a large box with some hay in it, and as he still seemed hungry that evening, we gave him a couple of cockchafers from the kitchen, which he appeared to relish mightily.
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cockchafer
Thecockchaferoverwinters in the earth at depths between 20 and 100 cm.
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She writes rather negatively about him, says that he had held her too tight and his body had looked like acockchafergrub.
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Only with the modernization of agriculture in the 20th century and the invention of chemical pesticides did it become possible to effectively combat thecockchafer.
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