23-02-2017: Ladybird Beetle A commemorative postage stamp

Ladybird Beetle are a group of insects that form the order Coleoptera. The word coleoptera is from the Greek which means “Sheathed Wing”, because most beetles have two pairs of wings, the front pair, being hardened and thickened into a shell-like protection for the rear pair and the beetle’s abdomen. Beetles are endopterygotes, which means before emerging as winged adults they undergo complete metamorphosis, a biological process by which an animal physically develops after birth or hatching, undergoing a series of conspicuous and relatively abrupt change in their body structure.