[
UK
/lˈeɪdɪbˌʌɡ/
]
[ US /ˈɫeɪdiˌbəɡ/ ]
[ US /ˈɫeɪdiˌbəɡ/ ]
NOUN
- small round bright-colored and spotted beetle that usually feeds on aphids and other insect pests
How To Use ladybug In A Sentence
- I'm guessing that the bug I swallowed this morning was a hybrid of sorts, a bastard child conceived of a drunken cricket and a desperate ladybug.
- After the read aloud, the text was extended as children examined pictures of a cricket, a ground beetle, and ladybugs, and they made comments and comparisons.
- In the Zhejiang University, where he found a ladybug teaches genetic mosaic splash dominant phenomenon.
- In this weird English language, greyhounds aren't always grey (or gray), a ladybug is a beetle, guinea pigs are neither pigs nor from Guinea, and a titmouse is neither mammal nor mammaried. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 4
- Ladybirds (ladybugs in North America) fulfill all the requirements for a useful bioindicator," the study authors write. Scientific American
- Predators, such as ladybugs and assassin bugs, devour their prey.
- JJ proves that not every minister/politicial/sex pervert is a Republican ladybug in CA Jackson: Black leaders want to engage more with Obama
- Thirty years ago, if you were walking along the coast of the Netherlands and picked a two-spot ladybug off the leaf of a European lime tree, chances were that the bug would be red with black spots.
- The larval stage of the green lacewing is sometimes confused with the larval stage of lady beetles or ladybugs.
- The larvae of ladybugs and green lacewings are also hunters of small, soft-bodied insect pests.