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they get their name from the middle ages when inscects were destroing crops so catholic farmers prayed to the virgin Mary for help and she sent them ladybugs who ate the insects and saved the crops. the farmers began calling them "the beetles of our lady" and eventually became lady beetles which is now ladybug

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