ladybug
lay dee buhg
- n small round bright-colored and spotted beetle that usually feeds on aphids and other insect pests
- She dies and, in a succession of increasingly smaller panels, she transforms into the husk of a ladybug.
- The reason: A ladybug is capable of eating in a season several thousand of the Aphis (green plant lice) which annually menace vineyards, peach and apricot orchards, and truck .
- An lite collection of stuffed animals, from a $19 pig to a $169 ladybug.