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Definition of Ladybird beetle
1. Noun. Small round bright-colored and spotted beetle that usually feeds on aphids and other insect pests.
Generic synonyms: Beetle
Group relationships: Coccinellidae, Family Coccinellidae
Specialized synonyms: Adalia Bipunctata, Two-spotted Ladybug, Bean Beetle, Epilachna Varivestis, Mexican Bean Beetle, Hippodamia Convergens, Rodolia Cardinalis, Vedalia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ladybird Beetle
Literary usage of Ladybird beetle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Stories of Insect Life by Mary Esther Murtfeldt, Clarence Moores Weed (1899)
"THE LIFE HISTORY OF A ladybird beetle. DURING summer one may often find on trees
and other plants infested by plant lice the pretty little beetles commonly ..."
2. Manual of Fruit Insects by Mark Vernon Slingerland, Cyrus Richard Crosby (1914)
"The chief natural enemy which kept this scale in check in its native home in
China was found to be a ladybird beetle, Chilocorus similis, which is almost ..."
3. The Encyclopedia of Practical Horticulture: A Reference System of Commercial by Granville Lowther, William Worthington (1914)
"The eggs of the ladybird beetle are laid in clusters not unlike bunches of cigars
stood on end, ... Red ladybird beetle Coccinella californica Mann. ..."
4. Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal by Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal (1903)
"Most people know what a ladybird beetle is like, the little oval, reddish, ...
The importation of the ladybird beetle and the business-like way it sot about ..."
5. Elements of Zoology: To Accompany the Field and Laboratory Study of Animals by Charles Benedict Davenport, Gertrude Anna Crotty Davenport (1911)
"Of those which serve us by killing other insects injurious to vegetation, the
ladybird beetle stands first. The economic importance to us of this one family ..."
6. Elementary Textbook of Economic Zoology and Entomology by Vernon Lyman Kellogg, Rennie Wilbur Doane (1915)
"A remarkable example of the good that they may do is furnished by the Australian
ladybird- beetle, Novius cardinalis, that was introduced into California to ..."
7. Introduction to Zoology: A Guide to the Study of Animals ; for the Use of by Charles Benedict Davenport, Gertrude Anna Crotty Davenport (1902)
"Of those which serve us by killing other insects injurious to vegetation, the
ladybird beetle stands first. The economic importance to us of this one family ..."
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