rove beetle in English
noun
1
a long-bodied beetle with very short wing cases, typically found among decaying matter where it may scavenge or prey on other scavengers.
The medical education director said the bugs - more than an eighth of an inch long - belong to the Staphylinidae rove beetle family of insects.
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1. Predacious natural enemies included ladybirds, lacewings, predacious bugs, rove beetle and spiders, but populations were low and lagged behind the population peaks of insect pests.