What is the difference between a ladybug and an Asian bug?

Answer 1

There isn't much of a difference. True, they're all a different species of insect, but their life cycles and their predatory natures are much the same. Both lady bugs and Asian lady beetles eat aphids and a multitude of different crop-killing insects and mites. Both the Asian lady beetle and the American lady bug are considered tremendously beneficial insects for agricultural purposes. Asian beetles were brought to America because they tended to eat aphids that fed on trees, rather than crops and garden vegetation.

Answer 2

• Lady beetles are of the family Coccinellidae previousPageLink(); while dung beetles are of the family Scarabaeidae (scarab beetles) and the sub-family Scarabaeinae.

• Dung beetles are useful because they break down the dung pats of stock animals, preventing fly larvae from developing there; lady beetles are useful because they feed on aphids, mites, small insects, and insect eggs.

Answer 3

There are over 350,000 beetle species known so far! A ladybird (also called a ladybug) is a beetle. So there is no real difference, apart from the ladybird's bright red colour with black dots.

Answer 4

The meaning is the same. However, "ladybug" seems to be more popular in the U.S., or at least some parts of it, while "ladybird" is generally used in the UK.