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Definition of Sawyer beetle

1. Noun. Any of several beetles whose larvae bore holes in dead or dying trees especially conifers.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sawyer Beetle

Literary usage of Sawyer beetle

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Timehri: The Journal of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of by Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of British Guiana (1891)
"The sawyer beetle.—The question as to the species of beetle which is accustomed to saw off comparatively large branches of trees, is not seldom raised; ..."

2. British Guiana: Or, Work and Wanderings Among the Creoles and Coolies, the by L. Crookall (1898)
"... known by the name of cockles and hardbacks ; also cockroaches, and grasshoppers, and locusts, the sawyer beetle, the scissors-grinder, the great borer, ..."

3. British Guiana: Or, Work and Wanderings Among the Creoles and Coolies, the by L. Crookall (1898)
"... known by the name of cockles and hardbacks ; also cockroaches, and grasshoppers, and locusts, the sawyer beetle, the scissors-grinder, the great borer, ..."

4. Library of Natural History by Richard Lydekker (1901)
"Titanus giganteus, a Brazilian species, sometimes measures over half a foot long, and is the largest of all known beetles, while the sawyer beetle ..."

5. Nature's teachings: human invention anticipated by nature by John George Wood (1877)
"The late Mr. Waterton showed me a branch which had fallen on his head, and which was said to have been cut off by the Sawyer-beetle, as the insect is called ..."

6. Nuts for Profit: A Treatise on the Propagation and Cultivation of Nut by John R. Parry (1897)
"Worms get into the young fruit and the " Sawyer " beetle cuts off trees and branches of considerable size. All of these pests, as well as crows and vermin ..."

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