Macrodactylus subspinosus

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Noun1.Macrodactylus subspinosus - common North American beetle: larvae feed on roots and adults on leaves and flowers of e.g. rose bushes or apple trees or grape vinesMacrodactylus subspinosus - common North American beetle: larvae feed on roots and adults on leaves and flowers of e.g. rose bushes or apple trees or grape vines
rose bug, rose chafer
melolonthid beetle - any of various beetles of the family (or subfamily) Melolonthidae
genus Macrodactylus, Macrodactylus - a genus of Melolonthidae
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1990), Popillia japonica Newman, and Macrodactylus subspinosus F.
Effect of soil moisture on Plectris aliena (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) oviposition
Additional upland taxa include the ladybird (Coccinellidae) Hyperaspis brunnescens Dobz., an apparently rare species known today only from Iowa and Illinois (Gordon 1985) [ILLUSTRATION FOR FIGURE 16 OMITTED], and numerous remains of a scarabaeid provisionally identified as Macrodactylus subspinosus (Fab.), the common "rose chafer." A limited fauna of saprophagous beetle species is present, including the scarabaeid Onthophagus hecate, a species associated with dung of large herbivores such as Bison.
Holocene paleoenvironments of northeast Iowa
Different studies show that Macrodactylus subspinosus (Fabricius), Oryctes rhinoceros (L.), and Popillia japonica (Newman) were susceptible to the insecticide concentration ranges applied in the food (Isaacs et al.
Comparative toxicity of six insecticides on the rhinoceros beetle (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)
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