chovychoveen.
The popular name in the East of England of the June-bug, Phyllopertha Horticola, a small beetle, related to the common cockchafer.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Lamellicornia Scarabaeoidea > family Scarabaeidae > member of genus Phyllopertha (May-bug)
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1784 J. Cullum Hist. & Antiq. Hawsted in Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica No. 23. 170 Chovee. A small beetle, of a bright chestnut colour, and with a green gilded head and corselet.
1830 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia Chovy, a small coleopterous insect, which invades gardens and orchards in hot summers, in our sandy districts..in such swarms as to be nearly equal to a plague of locusts.
1884 Christian World 18 Sept. 697/2 The sparrow..eats ‘chovies’, or May bugs.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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