Crossword-Solution: FRETTERS 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Those turbulent fretters against the dam of dullness and stern repression of even normal and harmless gaiety had long caused scandal.

They make that large class of fretters who enjoy no peace themselves, nor permit others to about them.

The aphises, pucerons, or vine-fretters, are hatched from an egg in the early spring, and are all called females, as they produce a living offspring about once in a fortnight to the ninth generation, which are also all of them females; then males are also produced, and by their intercourse the females become oviparous, and deposite their eggs on the branches, or in the bark to be hatched in the ensuing spring.

When Henking first investigated the development of _Trombidium fuliginosum_, parasitic in the larval stage on vine-fretters, he demonstrated the occurrence of a form very similar to _Leptus autumnalis_, and the “autumn, grass, or gooseberry” louse was commonly designated the Trombidium larva.