Ladybird vs Dragonfly - What's the difference?
ladybird | dragonfly |
Any of the Coccinellidae family of beetles, typically having a round shape and red or yellow spotted elytra.
* 1914 , Entomological Society of America, Annals of the Entomological Society of America , Volume 7,
* 1927 , Hamilton Wright Mabie, Edward Everett Hale, and William Byron Forbush (editors), Childhood?s Favorites and Fairy Stories: The Young Folks Treasury , Volume 1,
* 1976' September 30, Denis Owen, '''''Ladybird''', '''ladybird , fly away home'', ,
* 2008 , John L. Capinera, Encyclopedia of Entomology , Springer-Verlag New York, 2nd Edition,
An insect of the suborder Epiprocta or, more strictly, the infraorder Anisoptera with four long transparent wings held perpendicular to a long body.
As nouns the difference between ladybird and dragonfly
is that ladybird is any of the Coccinellidae family of beetles, typically having a round shape and red or yellow spotted elytra while dragonfly is an insect of the suborder Epiprocta or, more strictly, the infraorder Anisoptera with four long transparent wings held perpendicular to a long body.ladybird
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(wikipedia ladybird)Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)page 81,
- During this time, they eat about 825 Toxoptera per ladybird', making an average of about twenty-five per day to each ' ladybird .
Gutenberg eBook #19993,
- Lady-bird', ' lady-bird , fly away home, / Thy house is on fire, thy children all gone: / All but one whose name is Ann, / And she crept under the pudding-pan.
page 686,
- Ladybirds , unlike most beetles, enjoy considerable popularity: they are attractive to look at and are well-known as useful predators of aphids—the greenfly and blackfly that destroy garden plants and crops.
page 2130,
- Perhaps it was a sense of lack of effectiveness of native ladybirds' in rapid and complete control of aphid infestations that led to attempts to import additional aphid-feeding ' ladybird species into North America.