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tiger beetle

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tiger beetle
n.
Any of numerous active, brightly colored, predatory beetles of the family Cicindelidae, chiefly of warm, sandy regions, having large jaws and sluggish larvae that live in vertical burrows.
tiger beetle
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any active predatory beetle of the family Cicindelidae, chiefly of warm dry regions, having powerful mandibles and long legs
[so called because it has patterned, sometimes striped, wing covers]
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Noun1.tiger beetle - active usually bright-colored beetle that preys on other insectstiger beetle - active usually bright-colored beetle that preys on other insects
beetle - insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings
Cicindelidae, family Cicindelidae - tiger beetles
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Before that I would be looking at tiger beetles and thinking they were stag beetles," he said.
Guides to Nature; Books to learn what's around us by Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
A green tiger beetle scuttled just a footfall ahead on the sandy path and a lizard slithered away among the rocks of the collapsed dry-stone wall that we settled on, but otherwise nothing moved except the sea of heather, gently wobbling in the afternoon's hazy heat.
Country diary by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
Phil Smith noted good numbers of northern dune tiger beetle at Ainsdale's Green Beach, with its unseasonal female snow bunting.
LAZY Pete sprawled on the bare earth by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
 
 
 
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