Definitions for june bug

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

June′ bug`(n.)

or June′bug`

  1. any of several large brown beetles of the genus Phyllophaga, of the scarab family, appearing in late spring and early summer.

    Category: Entomology

Origin of June bug:

1825–35

Princeton's WordNet

  1. June beetle, June bug, May bug, May beetle(noun)

    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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