It definitely is. I'm afraid you can't do much about it !
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Those animals are called buggerflies for a reason.
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I'm really sorry you stumbled upon such a bug. Maybe it would get fix by tomorrow :D
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Yes... I think it could be! 🙊
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No, it's a naval rank!
Speaking of bugs, no offense, but I'd love to hear some opinions why it's used this way in North America.
Somehow it always comes across kind of ignorant to me when the term bugs is used for all small insects. Coming from another language bugs are just beetles, maybe heteropterans are okay, because of the similar body form. But Butterflies? Ants? Flies? Or even spiders (worst case, since not even insects)? Makes it sound like you don't care about determining the correct animal order/sub order/group, just because they are small or not cuddly. Noone says "Oh, look, a mammalia" upon noticing an elk, a wolf or a bat.
Now if you call it "bugs", because you want to pronounce that they're annoying, why not "pests" or even better "vermin"? And was anyone ever annoyed by butterflies?
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https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bug
You are referring to 1a ("true bug"), softbearcas is referring to 1b and "they're annoying" refers to 1c.
Languages differ. While we translate both "bug" and "beetle" to the same German word "Käfer", that doesn't mean they have the same meaning in English.
German has its logic errors, inconsistencies and diffuse names as well. Take strawberries for example. While the english term is technically wrong as well, we Germans literally call them earthberries. They're not in the earth and they aren't berries. And this is just the first example that came to mind.
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Besides being confronted with 1b very often, my guess regarding 1c was sort of etymological, although my quick research when writing the comment didn't lead to a result in this way (to bug seems to be not as old as 1a).
I agree regarding the inconsistencies, I just wanted to know how this started or in which context it's used and axolotlprime did a great job there.
Thanks though!
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Seeing that they're apparently from the US, of course they're doing a better job at that than me, being as german as you are. ^^
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From what I understand, anything with more than four legs is a 'bug.' Cockroaches? Bugs. Centipedes? Bugs. Crabs? Sea bugs. It's all about the unnerving number of legs.
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In the US at least, "bug" is sort of an informal way of referring to insects, arachnids, and their ilk in a non-specific way, often denoting that you either do not know or do not care about their exact identity. Saying "That bag of cookies was full of bugs, so I threw it out" is saying that you saw small arthropods crawling over the cookies, but what they were isn't important. Saying it "was full of insects" would sound weirdly formal in this context, kind of like saying "my automobile needs gasoline" instead of "my car needs gas". "Insects" would also be incorrect if it turned out those were mites crawling on the cookies, where "bugs" could provide a little more leeway. Conversely, most people will just use the actual name of the creature in question if they know what it is. So if you saw ants in your cookie bag, you would just say it was full of ants (and since most people have no trouble identifying a butterfly as such, it is pretty rare that you would hear someone referring to it as a "bug").
In a more formal setting, using "bug" when you specifically mean "insect" is going to come across as sounding childish or uneducated (unless you are talking about true bugs, as WaxWorm mentioned). It's typically viewed as more of a "kids' word", like using "kitty" for "cat" or "potty" for "toilet".
As for the other options, "pest" is a much more broad term that can refer to any sort of nuisance animal, from snails, to bats, to pigeons, etc. "Vermin" is pretty rarely used in the US in that sense outside of legal and technical language, and even then is most commonly used to refer to rats and mice. It's seen as more of an archaic or academic term, and the average person wouldn't be likely to use it other than as an insult or trying to sound like an old cartoon villain.
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Thanks for the verbose explanation! The "kids' word" makes it reasonable, especially since kids might not know all insect orders yet. Given this background, it's probably similar to "Viecher" or "Krabbeltier" in German (reverse translations I found: "critters" or "creepy crawly").
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I was going to eat, but now I don't really want to. 💀
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🙄…🦋🐛
Aha..?
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The puzzle? I hid the code in dark blue on the top of the butterfly's left wing! I wasn't trying to hide it super well, was just being silly lol :D
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...I might be blind <.<
Thanks for letting me know!
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I just saw your answer now.
I'm afraid of seeing butterflies up close.
Reminds me of Resident Evil.
Although I missed it, thank you for your answer.
Thanks.
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Something is really wrong with my steamgifts... please help! Here's a pic of the bug
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