Meanings of collect beetles in English

My summer vacations were given up to collecting beetles, to some reading, and short tours.

Wallace was able to make a living doing what he loved: collecting beetles and other insects.

He ended up going to Cambridge instead, where he spent hours in the countryside collecting beetles.

It seems therefore that a taste for collecting beetles is some indication of future success in life!

One is your case for collecting beetles, and the other is a stick, and the thicker and heavier the better.

But no pursuit at Cambridge was followed with nearly so much eagerness or gave me so much pleasure as collecting beetles.

Nature was travestied; ease, grace, freedom, were wanting: evidently the thirty years might have been better spent collecting beetles or dried grasses.

A scientific kind of poop, a botanizing shaloot that was travelling around with a tin box on his back, collecting beetles and bird-skins.

She was much admired: by a silk manufacturer from Lyons; by a quiet Englishman who collected beetles; by the youths who played tennis with her.

Dr. Gertsch, with the help of his 17-year-old-son, collected beetles, nocturnal spiders, and tarantulas -vagrant types that wander around at night in search of females.

Mr. Herbert relates how, during the same Barmouth summer, he was pressed into the service of "the science"-asmy father called collecting beetles.

"I will not collect beetles!"

"If this sort of thing happens often, I don't think that I should collect beetles from choice, at least not large ones," groaned Arthur.