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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.
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∙ 9y agoTechnically, no. Bugs are specific types of insects. E.g., butterflies are insects, but not bugs. Lightning 'bugs' are beetles.
WHOA,first guy who answered,if your trying to say lightning bugs are not insects,you are WRONG.beetles are insects.(shame me if its not what you ment)
Actually I'm pretty sure they are. The word bug, by definition is any insect or insectlike invertebrate -www.dictionary.refrence.com
Actually what dictionary.reference.com said was that was a "loose" meaning, which would include many species that are not even insects. … Which is why I said "technically". They are bugs in an informal usage sense only. You will not see lightning "bugs" referred to as bugs in any entomology text.
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∙ 14y agoi do not know the real answer but i do think they are the same insect. if you Google images you get the same thing so i do not know maybe, maybe not i say yes there the same insect. CrB
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∙ 13y agono because ladybirds are males and ladybugs are females
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∙ 10y agoYes, they are insects.
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∙ 16y agoYes
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∙ 13y agoyes
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∙ 13y agofireflies
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What other names do ladybirds have?
ladybugs or ladybirds
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Ladybugs (Ladybirds, in UK) eats greenfly and insects that are sap suckers on plants.
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