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Doodlebug tractor is the colloquial American English name for a tractor home-made in the United States during World War II, when production tractors were in short supply. The doodlebug of the 1940s was usually based on a 1920s or 1930s era Ford automobile which was then modified either by the complete removal or alteration of some of the ...
Other common names include slaters, potato bugs, butchy boys, [3] and doodle bugs. [4] Most species are native to the Mediterranean Basin, while a few species have wider European distributions. The best-known species, Armadillidium vulgare , was introduced to New England in the early 19th century and has become widespread throughout North America.
Doodlebug (antlion) doodles and pit traps in the Grand Canyon. The exact meaning of the name "antlion" is uncertain. It has been thought to refer to ants forming a large percentage of the prey of the insect, the suffix "lion" merely suggesting "destroyer" or "hunter". [2] In any case, the term seems to go back to classical antiquity. [3]
The common cockchafer (Melolontha melolontha), also colloquially known as the Maybug, [1] [a] Maybeetle, [3] or doodlebug, [4] is a species of scarab beetle belonging to the genus Melolontha. It is native to Europe, and it is one of several closely-related and morphologically similar species of Melolontha called cockchafers, alongside ...
Armadillidium vulgare, the common pill-bug, potato bug, common pill woodlouse, roly-poly, slater, doodle bug, or carpenter, is a widespread European species of woodlouse. It is the most extensively investigated terrestrial isopod species. [ 2 ]
On December 15, the New York City transplant noticed her dog prancing around the yard with something in his mouth. When she took a closer look, however, she couldn't believe what—or, in this ...
Doodlebug or doodle bug may refer to: Animals. Cockchafer or doodlebug, a European beetle; Woodlouse or doodlebug Armadillidiidae or doodlebug, a family of woodlice;
doodlebug (also used for the larva of an antlion [22] and for the cockchafer) fat pig (Ireland) gramersow (Cornwall, England) [23] hog-louse [24] millipedus; QuaQua regional to Beddau and Keppoch Street Roath; mochyn coed (' tree pig '), pryf lludw (' ash bug '), granny grey in Wales [25] pill bug (usually applied only to the genus ...