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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Her vivacity was as disturbing as the incessant buzzing of a June beetle.
2
Well, then, what right have I, an entire stranger, to come blundering along like a June beetle and disturb your rest?
3
I lighted my lamp, and, with the June beetles butting at my head, I wrote all night.
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If you have half the horror of those great June beetles that she has, you will know how she jumped.
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On the screens of the open windows the June beetles knock their heads, like theologues who wish they could get in.
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June beetles, coloured like emeralds, spun loudly through the stillness, which had in it an almost human quality of hushed and expectant waiting.