Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun may_bug

2 senses of may bug

Sense 1
cockchafer, May bug, May beetle, Melolontha melolontha -- (any of various large European beetles destructive to vegetation as both larvae and adult)
       => melolonthid beetle -- (any of various beetles of the family (or subfamily) Melolonthidae)

Sense 2
June beetle, June bug, May bug, May beetle -- (any of various large usually brown North American leaf-eating beetles common in late spring; the larvae feed on roots of grasses etc.)
       => scarabaeid beetle, scarabaeid, scarabaean -- (any of numerous species of stout-bodied beetles having heads with horny spikes)