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Beetle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For Entomologists who work on Coleoptera / Beetles, and others who are interested in Insects, Beetle collecting, Wildlife and Nature... For Researchers and Museum Workers, Ecologists, Environmentalists; ... information useful for Taxonomists, Collectors and Naturalists, Locality Search, Rearing beetles,
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Beetles web page tells about different types of beetles, what they eat, how they sustain life, where they are found and how to control them ... Beetles range in size from 5 1/8 inches long (tropical insects), to small species which measure less than 1/16 in length and can be found on land and in water.
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Beetles are one of the main groups of insects. Their order, Coleoptera (meaning "sheathed wing"), has more species in it than any other order in the entire animal kingdom. Forty percent of all described insect species are beetles (about 350,000 species), and new species are regularly discovered.
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