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firebug

[fahyuhr-buhg] / ˈfaɪərˌbʌg /
NOUN
person who sets fires
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Organizers have prepared a form and a mobile app to help people identify and report their firebug and lacewing sightings during this year’s two insect-counting events.

From Seattle Times

Outside, hundreds of bright red firebug beetles jockey for relief from the spring chill in a sliver of sunlight.

From BBC

They think I’m a thief and a firebug.

From Literature

Yeun skillfully captures the intriguing yet unnerving nature of a professed firebug.

From Washington Post

Some, like the radiantly red firebug, mutate aesthetically, their normally symmetrical designs warped and fractured.

From National Geographic