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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsSomething to Ponder. What do they call male ladybugs? thank you Do they call them gentleman bugs?
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CTyankee
(65,912 posts)Do I get a prize or something?
debm55
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magicarpet
(17,901 posts)... being gender specific might be construed offensive.
debm55
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dflprincess
(28,742 posts)(though at 71, spiders & ticks can still do that to me), but I digress.
A ladybug landed on his arm & he swatted at it. Our mother told him not to because "Ladybugs are good bugs."
In a fit of outrage he yelled at mom "Men bugs are good bugs too!"
It was one of those stories that became family lore & he never lived down.
debm55
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3catwoman3
(26,459 posts)Somewhere around age 8 or so, after bedtime prayers (a practice that abandoned before middle school) I asked her if we couldn't say "Ah, ladies" at the end instead of what I was obviously hearing as "Ah, men."
dflprincess
(28,742 posts)debm55
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surrounded by all those ladies, after all...
debm55
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2MuchNoise
(29 posts)or Lady Bros
debm55
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dgauss
(1,291 posts)You don't hear about them often because they tend to be jerks and most Entomologists would rather just ignore them.
debm55
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niyad
(123,042 posts)They are somewhat smaller than females.
debm55
(43,932 posts)dealing with a male or female?
niyad
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niyad
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niyad
(123,042 posts)Think. Again.
(22,330 posts)...like the Lady Beetle, some with single black spots, different hues of red, etc.
debm55
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Ocelot II
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Ocelot II
(123,997 posts)It varies with the species, though.
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JoseBalow
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applegrove
(125,447 posts)well after she finished college.
She had on black leggings and a black turtleneck. My black basketball high top running shoes. She had a red heart balloon on her back with black paper circles cut out and taped on it. And antenna was a headband from the balloon store that had two heart balloons on black antenna. Black gloves. It was brilliant. She forgot to give me my black hightops back to me. I never actually got to wear them but she looked so great i didn't remember or care (we are that way in my family, her kids one year all got the lost sports sandal award from summer camp as the kids most likely to leave things behind, forget things).
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Midnight Writer
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GreenWave
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GreenWave
(10,894 posts)I use fiberglass poles for tomatoes and they perch on top of them. Pesky bugs trying to eat tomatoes and other garden delights are held in check.
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Oneear
(431 posts)You do not have to put any Bug Spray on them so that you can Grow Organic Marijuana. NO Bug Spray Blue Sky overhead with Grow lights Cash Crop
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sop
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Metaphorical
(2,393 posts)cf. Bug's Life
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debm55
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Thank you so much!
Cartoonist
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4TheArts
(147 posts)...like Lady Grantham, Lord Grantham. "Tis the proper way.
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JoeOtterbein
(7,816 posts)....Ladybug!
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mike_c
(36,519 posts)Their actual common name is "ladybird beetles." Ladybug is essentially mispronounced ladybird. That mispronunciation is widely used in English, but it's still wrong. Ladybirds are beetles, while bugs is the common name for a large order of insects that are not beetles.
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ailsagirl
(24,067 posts)"There is no specific name for a male ladybug. Male and female ladybugs are both called ladybugs."
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