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ladybug
noun
la·dy·bug
ˈlā-dē-ˌbəg 
: any of numerous small nearly hemispherical often brightly colored often spotted beetles (family Coccinellidae) of temperate and tropical regions that usually feed both as larvae and adults on other insects (such as aphids)
called also lady beetle, ladybird, ladybird beetle
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There are also incredible installations featuring a red-and-black butterfly, a ladybug with a kaleidoscope on its back and glittery strawberries.
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Those first few weeks, ladybugs managed to enter, without ingress, to fly around our bedroom in the attic.
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Terri Peters, Parents, 20 June 2024
There are also incredible installations featuring a red-and-black butterfly, a ladybug with a kaleidoscope on its back and glittery strawberries.
—Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 28 Mar. 2024
When the ladybugs were brought down a post on social media site Reddit, asked in capital letters WHERE DID THE LADYBUGS GO?
—David Clarey, Journal Sentinel, 10 May 2024
Those first few weeks, ladybugs managed to enter, without ingress, to fly around our bedroom in the attic.
—Hazlitt, 29 May 2024
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ladybug
noun
la·dy·bug
-ˌbəg
: any of numerous small roundish-backed often brightly colored and spotted beetles that usually feed both when young and adult on other insects (as aphids)
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