ladybird
参见：lady-bird
英语[编辑]
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词源[编辑]
源自 lady + bird，这里的 lady 指的是马利亚，即耶稣的母亲。对照德语 Marienkäfer (字面意思是“玛莉甲虫”)。
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名词[编辑]
ladybird (复数 ladybirds)
- 瓢虫，鞘翅目瓢虫科成员的通称
- 近义词： (北美洲) ladybug、(部分昆虫学家偏好使用) lady beetle、(弃用，不列颠) ladycow、(弃用，不列颠) lady fly、(古旧，英国方言) 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.
- 在此期间，每只瓢虫大约要吃掉825只桔蚜，平均每只瓢虫每天要吃掉25只桔蚜。
- 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.
- 瓢虫，瓢虫，飞回家去吧，／你的房子着火了，你的孩子都走了：／除了一个叫安的，／她爬到了布丁锅下面。
- 1976 September 30, Denis Owen, Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home, New Scientist, page 686[永久失效链接],
- 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.
- 与大多数甲虫不同，瓢虫相当受欢迎：它们不仅外观迷人，而且是众所周知的蚜虫－破坏花园植物和农作物的绿蝇和黑蝇－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.
- 也许正是因为感觉到当地瓢虫在快速、彻底地控制蚜虫虫害方面缺乏有效性，人们才试图向北美引进更多的以蚜虫为食的瓢虫物种。
用法说明[编辑]
ladybird 一词在英式英语中使用，而 ladybug 则在美国和加拿大则很常见。
派生词汇[编辑]
延伸阅读[编辑]
Coccinellidae在维基百科上的资料。维基百科
