Any of various large European beetles destructive to vegetation as both larvae and adult.
Any of various large usually brown North American leaf-eating beetles common in late spring; the larvae feed on roots of grasses etc.
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While I was writing this paper the chief enemy of the strawberry came blundering and bumping about my lamp-theMay beetle.
2
It also eats a small amount of newly planted corn, but at the same time clears the field of May beetles.