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Strictly and formally, bugs and beetles are two different kinds of insects.

  • A true bug (Hemiptera, meaning half wing) has a snout or beak that can pierce and suck. Bugs suck sap from plants and blood from animals.
  • A beetle (Coleoptera, meaning sheathed wing) has two hard wings at the front which protect a second pair of wings, or the rest of the insect's body.

Informally, the word bug is used to describe arthropods (insects, Spiders and crustaceans), so informally a beetle is just a kind of bug.

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The correct definition of the name bug is a verminous blood sucking insect infesting old or dirty houses. A bug may not necessarily belong to this description. In modern terminology a bug can be any crawling or flying insect to which we are not able to allocate a specific name. In this sense there may be no difference between a beetle and a bug

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There are many differences between bees and beetles. Their appearance is different a bee has wings and is black and yellow striped and a beetle tends to be black or shinny. Bettles tend to live in plants or dirt and bees live in hives.

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Flies are insects and ladybugs are beetles. Flies don't have the atom and ladybugs have them and extra wings under it

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There are no reasonable differences because a beetle is an insect. A beetle has different characteristics when compared to other insects though.

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