ladybird
參見:lady-bird
英語
[编辑]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Ladybird.jpg/220px-Ladybird.jpg)
其他形式
[编辑]詞源
[编辑]源自 lady + bird,這裡的 lady 指的是馬利亞,即耶穌的母親。對照德語 Marienkäfer (字面意思是“瑪莉甲蟲”)。
發音
[编辑]名詞
[编辑]ladybird (複數 ladybirds)
- 瓢蟲,鞘翅目瓢蟲科成員的通稱
- 近義詞: (北美洲) ladybug、(部分昆蟲學家偏好使用) lady beetle、(棄用,不列顛) ladycow、(棄用,不列顛) lady fly、(古舊,英國方言) bishy barnabee
- 1914, Entomological Society of America, Annals of the Entomological Society of America, Volume 7, page 81,
- During this time, they eat about 825 Toxoptera per ladybird, making an average of about twenty-five per day to each ladybird.
- 在此期間,每隻瓢蟲大約要吃掉825隻桔蚜,平均每隻瓢蟲每天要吃掉25隻桔蚜。
- 1927, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Edward Everett Hale, and William Byron Forbush (editors), Childhood′s Favorites and Fairy Stories: The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1, Gutenberg eBook #19993,
- Lady-bird, lady-bird, fly away home, / Thy house is on fire, thy children all gone: / All but one whose name is Ann, / And she crept under the pudding-pan.
- 瓢蟲,瓢蟲,飛回家去吧,/你的房子著火了,你的孩子都走了:/除了一個叫安的,/她爬到了布丁鍋下面。
- 1976 September 30, Denis Owen, Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home, New Scientist, page 686[永久失效連結],
- Ladybirds, unlike most beetles, enjoy considerable popularity: they are attractive to look at and are well-known as useful predators of aphids—the greenfly and blackfly that destroy garden plants and crops.
- 與大多數甲蟲不同,瓢蟲相當受歡迎:它們不僅外觀迷人,而且是眾所周知的蚜蟲-破壞花園植物和農作物的綠蠅和黑蠅-的有效捕食者。
- 2008, John L. Capinera, Encyclopedia of Entomology, Springer-Verlag New York, 2nd Edition, page 2130,
- Perhaps it was a sense of lack of effectiveness of native ladybirds in rapid and complete control of aphid infestations that led to attempts to import additional aphid-feeding ladybird species into North America.
- 也許正是因為感覺到當地瓢蟲在快速、徹底地控制蚜蟲蟲害方面缺乏有效性,人們才試圖向北美引進更多的以蚜蟲為食的瓢蟲物種。
用法說明
[编辑]ladybird 一詞在英式英語中使用,而 ladybug 則在美國和加拿大則很常見。
派生詞彙
[编辑]延伸閱讀
[编辑]Coccinellidae在維基百科上的資料。維基百科