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Encyclopedia > Ladybird (disambiguation)

Coccinellidae commonly known as ladybirds or ladybugs are a family of beetles. Subfamilies Chilocorinae Coccidulinae Coccinellinae Epilachninae Scymininae Sticholotidinae etc. ...


Ladybird or ladybug may also refer to:

In music: Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson (born December 22, 1912) is the widow of former President Lyndon B. Johnson and was First Lady of the United States from 1963-1969. ... Ladybird is Hank Hills dog from the cartoon television series King of the Hill. She is named after the wife of President (and Texan) Lyndon Johnson, Lady Bird Johnson. ... Ladybird Books is a London-based publishing company that produces childrens books. ... Ladybird ladybird is a nursery rhyme. ... Ladybird, Ladybird is a 1994 drama film directed by Ken Loach. ... Spoiler warning: Ladybugs is a comedic movie released in 1992 starring Rodney Dangerfield as unwilling soccer coach for a girls team, and Jonathan Brandis as his all-star player, who must pose as a girl in order to compete. ... Lady Bug is a Pac-Man-like maze-based insect-themed arcade game produced by Universal Games and released in 1981. ...

  • Ladybird, a track on Everybody Loves a Happy Ending by 1980s British pop band Tears for Fears
  • 22-Pistepirkko (22-Spotted Ladybird), a Finnish popular music band
  • Ladybug (rapper), a member of the rap group Digable Planets
  • Ladybug (punk), an all-girls grunge band
  • Lady Bird (jazz), a jazz standard
  • The Ladybirds, a British trio (Gloria, Maggie, and Marion), most noted for appearing on The Benny Hill Show in the '60s and '70s, usually as backup vocals
  • Ladybug is a song by Breaking Benjamin on their 3rd album, So Cold (EP).

  Results from FactBites:
 
Coccinellidae - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (914 words)
Coccinellidae is a family of beetles, known variously as ladybirds (Commonwealth English), ladybugs (North American English) or lady beetles (preferred by scientists).
The ladybird is immortalised in the children's nursery rhyme extant:
Two ladybirds are featured in the Peugeot 207 TV commercial.
ladybird - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about ladybird (279 words)
Ladybirds' red colouration with fl spots is a warning to potential predators, such as birds, that they are unpleasant to eat.
Ladybirds have been used as a form of biological control since the 19th century and the US ladybird harvest was worth an annual $3–5 million by 1991.
The orange ladybird Halyzia sedecimguttata is a large pale orange beetle with 16 spots.
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