Yes, a lightning bug, or as we call it in Tennessee, a fire fly, is a beetle, like a lady bug, which is also a beetle.
They are in different families, but in the same order (beetles, Coleoptera). Lady beetles (or lady bugs, if you wish) are in the Coccinellidae family and lightning bugs are in the Lampyridae family.
ladybugs or ladybirds
Yes, ladybirds (or ladybugs) can be found in deserts.
No. Ladybugs (Ladybirds) eat aphids.
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Ladybirds (ladybugs) are not herbivorous; they are insectivores. Ladybugs eat scale bugs and aphids that do eat plant matter.
Ladybugs (also known as ladybirds) do a lot of good by eating sap-sucking aphids (greenfly). Ladybirds really are a useful gardeners' friend.
It is believed that ladybugs do bring good luck to people.
Ladybirds (ladybugs) lay eggs, they don't carry their young.
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Ladybugs (Ladybirds, in UK) eats greenfly and insects that are sap suckers on plants.
ladybirds (ladybugs) pupa don't eat anything. they just fall asleep for a few days and then they turn into a adult.
Yes, ladybugs are included in the insect category.