It is to the death, and has been going on for years, the combatants being the red cockroach and the blackbeetle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2)] Reference

Even blackbeetles, as she often told herself, were God's creatures, and Mr Ogilvie, although he had deserted her, no doubt had finer sensibilities than a blackbeetle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Austin and His Friends] Reference

"He would squash Heemskirk like a blackbeetle all the same," I remarked.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Twixt Land and Sea] Reference

'You'll' ave to wait till that little blackbeetle in the office 'as gorn.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deep Waters, the Entire Collection] Reference

Worst of all, I was victimised by the presence of a blackbeetle in a plate of clear soup served me at my club.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, December 22, 1920] Reference

An exploratory blackbeetle now and then was found immovable upon the stairs, or in an upper room, as wondering how he got there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dombey and Son] Reference

He haunted the kitchen with the persistency of a blackbeetle, and became such a nuisance at last that Miss Hartley espoused his cause almost with enthusiasm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Salthaven] Reference

She resembled an enormous and aquatic blackbeetle, surprised by the light, overwhelmed by the sunshine, trying to escape with ineffectual effort into the distant gloom of the land.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nigger of the Narcissus] Reference

Later on in life I was the victim of a cruel hoax, carried out with triumphant ingenuity by a confirmed practical joker, who with the aid of a thread caused what appeared to be a gigantic blackbeetle to perform strange and unholy evolutions in my sitting-room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, December 22, 1920] Reference

'I really do not wish to be abusive; but when I think of these poor little dullards, with their precarious hold of just that corner of evolution that a blackbeetle can understand -- with their retinue of twopenny-halfpenny Torquemadas wallowing in the infamies of the vivisector's laboratory, and solemnly offering us as epoch-making discoveries their demonstrations that dogs get weaker and die if you give them no food; that intense pain makes mice sweat; and that if you cut off a dog's leg the three-legged dog will have a four-legged puppy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Back to Methuselah] Reference

"A blackbeetle?".    From Wordnik.com.  [White Lies] Reference

Why, with the nearest blackbeetle, to be sure. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [White Lies] Reference