Beetle Larva Crossword Clue

- Are you in Britain for the food?
- Beetle larva
- Burg turned away dirty person
- Dig out (stumps)
- Dirty child
- Food for a beetle larva?
- Insect larva

- An avid reader may be so described
- Avid reader
- Literature nut
- Paperback fan
- Reserve leading weeklies or monthlies, primarily for avid reader
- Voracious reader
- Any larva of a beetle or moth, which is injurious to books. Many species are known.

- A diving, or water, beetle, especially the larva of a water beetle. See Illust. b of Water beetle.

- The rapacious larva of a large water beetle (Hydrophilus piceus), and of other similar species. See Illust. of Water beetle.

- The active young larva of any oil beetle. It has feet armed with three claws, and is parasitic on bees. See Illust. of Oil beetle, under Oil.

- The larva or grub of a large South American beetle (Calandra palmarum), which lives in the pith of palm trees and sugar cane. It is eaten by the natives, and esteemed a delicacy.

- A child's toy, spun or whirled around like a wheel upon an axis, or like a top.
- Anything which whirls around, or in which persons or things are whirled about, as a frame with seats or wooden horses.
- A mediaeval instrument for punishing petty offenders, being a kind of wooden cage turning on a pivot, in which the offender was whirled round with great velocity.
- Any one of numerous species of beetles belonging to Gyrinus and allied genera. The body is firm, oval or boatlike in form, and usually dark colored with a bronzelike luster. These beetles live mostly on the surface of water, and move about with great celerity in a gyrating, or circular, manner, but they are also able to dive and swim rapidly. The larva is aquatic. Called also weaver, whirlwig, and whirlwig beetle.