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ladybird beetle
(Encyclopedia) ladybird beetle or ladybug, member of a cosmopolitan beetle family with over 4,000 species, including 350 species in the United States. Ladybird beetles are mostly under 1&fslsh;4…scarab beetle
(Encyclopedia) scarab beetle or scarab, name for members of a large family of heavy-bodied, oval beetles (the Scarabaeidae), with about 30,000 species distributed throughout most of the world and…June beetle
(Encyclopedia) June beetle or May beetle, a blackish or mahogany-colored beetle of the scarab beetle family, widely distributed in North America and especially abundant in the NE United States and…Brewer's: Beetle-crusher
A large, flat foot. The expression was first used in Punch, in one of Leech's caricatures. Those who know London know how it is overrun with cockroaches, wrongly called black-beetles.…Japanese beetle
(Encyclopedia) Japanese beetle, common name for a destructive beetle, Popillia japonica, of the scarab beetle family. Accidentally imported to the United States from Japan, it was first discovered in…carpet beetle
(Encyclopedia) carpet beetle, name for several beetles that are highly destructive to carpets and upholstery and are classified in the same family as the larder beetles. Adult beetles of this family…beetle
(Encyclopedia) beetle, common name for insects of the order Coleoptera, which, with more than 300,000 described species, is the largest of the insect orders. Beetles have chewing mouthparts and well-…Aesop's Fables: The Eagle and the Beetle
by Aesop The Wasp and the SnakeThe Fowler and the LarkThe Eagle and the Beetle An Eagle was chasing a hare, which was running for dear life and was at her wits' end to know where to turn…firefly
(Encyclopedia) firefly or lightning bug, small, luminescent, carnivorous beetle of the family Lampyridae. Fireflies are well represented in temperate regions, although the majority of species are…ladybug
(Encyclopedia) ladybug: see ladybird beetle.Trending
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