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If you are going to be that picky then your original complaint was imprecise. Bug != insect. True bugs are hemiptera or possibly only heteroptera [1], bugs ge
by kwhitefoot 5y ago
If you are going to be that picky then your original complaint was imprecise. Bug != insect. True bugs are hemiptera or possibly only heteroptera [1], bugs generally are any arthropods [2].
It's surely not useful word if you wanted to be precise. The word bug is taxonomically vague.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemiptera https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemiptera
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug
- datameta 5y ago"Insects are the largest group within the arthropod phylum" [0] So if colloquially any arthropod is a bug (which seems wrong to me) then any insect is a bug. To that end I can certainly agree that the word "bug" is a broad term and has different meanings contextually. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insect