He first had the idea of setting up a Beetle club 15 years ago.
The Forestry Commission has warned that a beetle, imported from China, could do "extensive damage" to British woodlands.
Commercial preparations of diatomaceous earth did as well as the organophosphate in all cases bar one (a beetle called the lesser grain borer in sorghum).
So the native South African took the insects (Scarabaeus satyrus) into the Johannesburg planetarium where she could control the type of star fields a beetle might see overhead.
" Another ad showed a couple in the Ozarks who had bought a Beetle to replace their dead mule, explaining: "It was the only thing to do after the mule died.
And there are plenty of variations on the theme: A version of the Levitron called "Floating Ideas" gives you a base over which you can float a variety of objects, including models of the space shuttle, a VW Beetle and a picture frame.
If the pattern of public opinion in general is bell-shaped, that of religious belief has the profile of a Volkswagen Beetle: a bump of evangelical Protestants at the front, a bigger bulge of uncensorious congregations in the middle and a stubby secular tail.
But I think it's more than that, and I didn't know what it was until one day I squinted at a new Beetle, and saw not a car but a plasma display.
At the time, his wheels were a classic VW Beetle and a Fiat Abarth "as an everyday drive".
The largest ever, caught off Nova Scotia, weighed 1, 496 pounds, half the weight of a Volkswagen Beetle.
Buying a vintage Beetle in India today is far more costly, he says.
Ranging in size from a wastepaper basket to a Volkswagen Beetle, its contraptions, known as feeders, weigh and distribute ingredients.
It worked for rival retailer BuyComp.com, which generated 100, 000 clicks a month during a recent promotion to give away a Volkswagen Beetle.
Another commercial featured a slimmed-down dog chasing after a Volkswagen Beetle.
Three astronauts, mission commander Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert, found themselves rocketing around the moon in a pair of joined vehicles, each with the interior space of a VW Beetle, almost no power, and no heat.
They lived at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, kept up on work in Jordan via e-mail, spun around in a Volkswagen Beetle, browsed in bookstores, walked in nearby woods and watched Canada geese settling down for autumn nights.
Meanwhile a team of UK scientists is researching biological control of knotweed with fungus and a species of beetle which keeps the plant to a manageable size in its native Japan.
Torque steer (the tendency of front-wheel drive cars to pull to the side upon acceleration) is a problem with the Beetle, especially when you have a heavy right foot like I do.
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Our guide easily picked up a prehistoric dung beetle before setting it free to scurry over droppings left by elephants.
The piece is a disassembled 1976 Volkswagen Beetle that appears to be exploding in midair.
Some men seem to think the Beetle Convertible a tad fey (women almost universally love the thing, by the way).
The pine beetle is a well-known pest, not an exotic import, but no effective means has been found to stop it.
Vaguely reminiscent of the original's dash design, the Beetle deploys a body-colored plastic fascia on the dash and doors, matching a surround piece on the steering wheel.
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Just ask Chicagoans Liz McCorry and Phil Koesterer, who found themselves perplexed at the prospect of replacing their Volkswagen New Beetle for a more accommodating ride with a child on the way.
One particular question they plan to address is whether the behaviour and severity of the High Park fire was affected by the spread of mountain pine beetle, a pest that is rapidly overrunning Colorado because its breeding season has been extended by the warming climate.
We have little retro cars like the VW New Beetle (and a convertible is coming), the Mini from BMW and the Chrysler PT Cruiser.
The stress on the trees causes them to emit a chemical that draws the beetle, hopefully clustering the insects in an area and making it easier to destroy their eggs before they become adults.
Scientists say forests in the Western U.S. have been increasingly damaged in recent years by invasive insect species such as the bark beetle -- a sign that rising temperatures are having an adverse effect.
It does not come as any surprise that the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) in the US can see the massive military potential for a new generation of supersensitive, miniature, robust, uncooled, infrared detectors inspired by a humble heat-seeking beetle.
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