This small collection of beautiful countries are home to thousands of tropical islands. As a matter of fact, there are so many in the region that the Philippines alone is made up of more than 7,000 different ones.
Ladybugs belong to the Animalia Kingdom. They are a part of the Phylum Arthropoda. Their Class is Insecta. They belong to the order of Coleoptera, beetles, of course. Finally, their Family is that of the Coccinellidae. There are about 150 species of ladybugs in the United States, wow!
In the USA, the name ladybird was popularly americanized to ladybug, although these insects are beetles (Coleoptera), not bugs (Hemiptera). Now, the word ladybird applies to a whole family of beetles, Coccinellidae or ladybirds, not just Coccinella septempunctata.adybird is a name that has been used in England for more than 600 years for the European beetle Coccinella septempunctata. As knowledge about insects increased, the name became extended to all its relatives, members of the beetle family Coccinellidae.