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A beetle that treats your porch light like a nightclub with no exit.
means A common name for various large, clumsy, often brownish beetles (especially chafers in the genus Phyllophaga and relatives) that emerge in late spring and early summer and blunder noisily toward lights at night.
from Straightforward English compounding: 'June,' the month these beetles swarm out of the soil as adults, plus 'bug,' the old catch-all word for insects. No hidden root or borrowed word here — the name is basically a field note. It took hold in American English, where the beetles are a reliable, thudding sign that summer has arrived.
- actual name
- usually a May beetle, genus Phyllophaga
- flight skills
- bumbling, loud, prone to faceplanting into walls
- larval stage
- grubs eat grass roots for up to three years underground
- southern slang
- kids tie thread to legs and fly them like kites