>>It's an amazing bug
>
>I hope you don't really mean that butterflies are bugs. Have these
>taxonomic radicals taken over entemology, as well? :)
>
>- Don Baccus, Portland OR <donb at rational.com>


"bug" = member of insect order Hemiptera (sometimes called Heteroptera)

"bug" also = slang or idiom for "insect"

study of insects = entomology :)

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