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Are ladybirds insects

Updated: 10/8/2023
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It is both a bug and a beetle. Bettles are bugs.

Only in a slang sense is a lady bug a bug. (Lady beetle is the most accurate name). In an entomological sense, bugs and beetles are both insects, but bugs are not beetles and beetles are not bugs.

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Yes, they are beetles. All insects have six legs, and ladybugs have six legs; therefore they are insects.

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8y ago

Yes. Ladybirds also known as ladybugs are beetles.

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14y ago

yes, because insects have 6 legs and ladybirds do have

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yes they are!

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Yes. A cute insect.

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Yes, the ladybug is an insect.

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Yes, a ladybug is an insect.

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