June bug
Noun
Meaning
any of various large usually brown North American leaf-eating beetles common in late spring; the larvae feed on roots of grasses etc.
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June beetle
May bug
May beetle
scarab
click beetle
cockchafer
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ground beetle
green June beetle
inner city
tumblebug
dung beetle
Japanese beetle
flower chafer
European chafer
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It is better to be a young June Bug than an old Bird of Paradise.
There's a type of bug that latches on, lays an egg where the June bug can't reach it, and then the egg hatches and eats the host from the inside out.