burying
burial | concealing something under the ground |
| beetle | insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings |
| tiger beetle | active usually brightolored beetle that preys on other insects |
ladybug
ladybeetle
lady beetle
ladybird
ladybird beetle | small round brightolored and spotted beetle that usually feeds on aphids and other insect pests |
Mexican bean beetle
bean beetle
Epilachna varivestis | introduced into the United States from Mexico, feeds on the foliage of the bean plant |
ground beetle
carabid beetle | predacious shining black or metallic terrestrial beetle that destroys many injurious insects |
| bombardier beetle | beetle that ejects audibly a pungent vapor when disturbed |
searcher
searcher beetle
Calosoma scrutator | large metallic blue-green beetle that preys on caterpillars, found in North America |
long-horned beetle
longicorn
longicorn beetle | long-bodied beetle having very long antennae |
sawyer
sawyer beetle | any of several beetles whose larvae bore holes in dead or dying trees especially conifers |
leaf beetle
chrysomelid | brightly colored beetle that feeds on plant leaves, larvae infest roots and stems |
| flea beetle | any small leaf beetle having enlarged hind legs and capable of jumping |
Colorado potato beetle
Colorado beetle
potato bug
potato beetle
Leptinotarsa decemlineata | black-and-yellow beetle that feeds in adult and larval stages on potato leaves, originally of eastern Rocky Mountains, now worldwide |
carpet beetle
carpet bug | small beetle whose larvae are household pests feeding on woolen fabrics |
buffalo carpet beetle
Anthrenus scrophulariae | a small black and red and white carpet beetle |
| black carpet beetle | a carpet beetle that is solid black in color |
clerid beetle
clerid | predacious on other insects, usually brightly colored or metallic |
| bee beetle | European beetle, infests beehives |
| lamellicorn beetle | beetle having antennae with hard platelike terminal segments |
scarabaeid beetle
scarabaeid
scarabaean | any of numerous species of stout-bodied beetles having heads with horny spikes |
| dung beetle | any of numerous beetles that roll balls of dung on which they feed and in which they lay eggs |
June beetle
June bug
May bug May beetle | any of various large usually brown North American leaf-eating beetles common in late spring, the larvae feed on roots of grasses etc. |
green June beetle
figeater | large greenish June beetle of southern United States |
Japanese beetle
Popillia japonica | small metallic green and brown beetle native to eastern Asia, serious plant pest in North America |
Oriental beetle
Asiatic beetle
Anomala orientalis | introduced into United States from the Orient, larvae feed on roots of sugarcane and other grasses |
| rhinoceros beetle | any of various large chiefly tropical beetles having horns on the head, pest on coconuts |
| melolonthid beetle | any of various beetles of the family (or subfamily) Melolonthidae |
cockchafer
May bug May beetle Melolontha melolontha | any of various large European beetles destructive to vegetation as both larvae and adult |
rose chafer rose beetle
Cetonia aurata | a common metallic green European beetle: larvae feed on plant roots and adults on leaves and flowers of e.g. roses |
| stag beetle | a kind of lamellicorn beetle, the male has branched mandibles resembling antlers |
elaterid beetle
elater
elaterid | any of various widely distributed beetles |
click beetle
skipjack snapping beetle | able to right itself when on its back by flipping into the air with a clicking sound |
firefly fire beetle
Pyrophorus noctiluca | tropical American click beetle having bright luminous spots |
| water beetle | any of numerous aquatic beetles usually having a smooth oval body and flattened hind legs for swimming |
| whirligig beetle | aquatic beetle that circles rapidly on the water surface |
deathwatch beetle
deathwatch Xestobium rufovillosum | bores through wood making a ticking sound popularly thought to presage death |
| snout beetle | small weevil having a prolonged snout, destructive to e.g. grains and nuts |
blister beetle
meloid | beetle that produces a secretion that blisters the skin |
| oil beetle | any of various beetles that exude an oily substance from the leg joints that deters enemies |
Dutch-elm beetle
Scolytus multistriatus | a vector of the fungus causing Dutch elm disease |
| bark beetle | small beetle that bores tunnels in the bark and wood of trees, related to weevils |
spruce bark beetle
Dendroctonus rufipennis | small beetle that likes to bore through the bark of spruce trees and eat the cambium which eventually kills the tree, the spruce bark beetle is the major tree-killing insect pest of Alaska spruce forests |
| rove beetle | active beetle typically having predatory or scavenging habits |
darkling beetle
darkling groung beetle
tenebrionid | sluggish hard-bodied black terrestrial weevil whose larvae feed on e.g. decaying plant material or grain |
flour beetle
flour weevil | an insect that infests flour and stored grains |
seed beetle
seed weevil | a small beetle that infests the seeds of legumes |
Asian longhorned beetle
Anoplophora glabripennis | a beetle from China that has been found in the United States and is a threat to hardwood trees, lives inside the tree, no natural predators in the United States |
mallet
beetle | a tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually wooden), used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing |
cemetery
graveyard
burial site
burial ground
burying ground
memorial park
necropolis | a tract of land used for burials |
sexton
sacristan | an officer of the church who is in charge of sacred objects |