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Definition of Rose beetle
1. Noun. A common metallic green European beetle: larvae feed on plant roots and adults on leaves and flowers of e.g. roses.
Generic synonyms: Scarabaean, Scarabaeid, Scarabaeid Beetle
Group relationships: Cetonia, Genus Cetonia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rose Beetle
Literary usage of Rose beetle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Essays and Observations on Natural History, Anatomy, Physiology, Psychology by John Hunter, Richard Owen (1861)
"On the Rose-beetle [Cetonia aurata],—This is a flat green beetle with some small
irregular specks of yellow, found commonly on the flower of the Spirea, ..."
2. The American Rose Annual by American Rose Society (1922)
"... and the small white grubs, about one-third inch in — a length, burrow into
the soil and Fio. 6. Fuller's rose beetle ..."
3. The American Rose Annual by American Rose Society (1922)
"Fuller's rose beetle ... left maxilla with palpus; g, lower side of head of larva;
h, upper side of same enlarged. (After Riley.) FULLER'S rose beetle ..."
4. Manual of Fruit Insects by Mark Vernon Slingerland, Cyrus Richard Crosby (1914)
"The grubs attack the crown like the foregoing species. REFERENCE Fletcher, Rept.
Ent. Bot. for 1897, p. 204. 1898. FULLER'S rose beetle ..."
5. Greenhouse Management: A Manual for Florists and Flower Lovers on the by Levi Rawson Taft (1898)
"FULLER'S rose beetle ... A few years ago great harm was done to roses in greenhouses
by Fuller's rose beetle (Fig. 107, a), which was often spoken of as ..."
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