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Answer for the clue "Beetles ", 8 letters:
ladybugs

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Ladybugs is a 1992 American sports-comedy family film starring Rodney Dangerfield and directed by Sidney J. Furie . Dangerfield plays a Denver businessman who takes over a girls soccer team that the company he works for sponsors. The film also stars Jackée ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coccinella \Coc`ci*nel"la\, n. [NL., fr. L. coccineus scarlet-colored. See Cochoneal .] (Zo["o]l.) A genus of small beetles of many species. They and their larv[ae] feed on aphids or plant lice, and hence are of great benefit to man. Also called ladybirds ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (plural of ladybug English)

Usage examples of ladybugs.

At the bottom of the log, he highlighted the most recent entry, the call received while he had been downstairs in his study, trying to make sense of ladybugs, snails, and foreskins.

This was the heavy fragrance of Broadway roses in his study when no roses had been there, the precious voice of his lost wife speaking of ladybugs in the white room.

When she came back, the ladybugs were gone—mostly gone—she still finds them tucked into her shoes, in the folds of her underwear, in her cereal bowls and her wineglasses, and between the pages of her books.

Surely one could not import ladybugs without importing aphids as well.

They ignored it, instead scrambling back toward the ladybugs, eager to pester them some more.