Video: "Ladybug, fly to the sky ": Why does a bug with a bright color have such an unusual name
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
At the mention of a ladybug, a children's counting rhyme immediately comes to mind: "Ladybug, fly to heaven …" Perhaps everyone at least once wondered, why exactly "ladybug", and besides, "lady"? Let's try to understand this childish issue that interests even adults.
The ladybug is a common insect in the beetle family. It compares favorably with the rest with its bright color: red wings with black dots. In nature, the insect is of great benefit, eating aphids and ticks.
Most likely, she was called the "ladybug" because of the ability to excrete milk. Well, to be precise, this liquid is yellow in color, and it tastes very bitter. In large quantities, it can even be fatal. Birds and spiders prefer not to touch the ladybug. If it is swallowed, then the milk secreted will provoke a burn in the throat. In addition, the bright color makes the ladybug completely unappetizing in the eyes of potential predators.
The second part of the name of this insect also has its own explanation. According to ancient legends and tales, a ladybug lives in heaven, and flies to earth as a good messenger. To whom it sits on the palm of your hand, God's grace has been sent down. It is not for nothing that in other countries the ladybug is called "the beetle of the Holy Virgin Mary" (German "Marienkäfer"), "the bird of the Virgin" (English "Ladybug"), "Ladybug of St. Anthony" (Argentine. "Vaquita de San Antonio"), "God's chicken" (French "Roulette a Dieu").
Suffice it to recall that earlier they used to say "God" about a person, implying that he was "peaceful, harmless, meek." The same meaning was projected onto the ladybug.
There is really something touching about ladybugs. Irish photographer Tomasz Skochen created amazing beauty a series of macro shots with ladybirds in the dew.
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