Why DO these bugs kick ass tho?? Please enlighten me I’m curious now
beetles make up 40% of described insects and 25% of all known animals,coleoptera is the largest order of the animal kingdom with over 400,000 species, compared to 10,000 species of birds and mammals. thats a lot of fucking cool ass bugs. there’s a saying that goes “1 in every 4 animals is a beetle” because there are So Many Of The Fuckers. they’re found on every continent except Antarctica and are very good at adapting to any environment, and many act as essential decomposes by eating leaf litter/dead trees/fungus/carrion/dung. they’ve been around since before the super continent Pangaea broke up, meaning they’ve been around for 270 million years, which also means they’ve survived 3 mass extinction events (Permian-Triassic: 95% of all living beings dead, worst extinction event; Triassic-Jurassic extinction; Cretaceous-Paleogene, what took out the dinosaurs, 76% of all living things dead)
and they look kick ass!!
Hercules beetle,( Dynastes hercules) largest beetle!! can grow up to 16cm long!
harlequin beetle, (Acrocinus longimanus)the one pictured is a male; males will have extremely long front legs (females as do as well comparatively to other beetles but males are like, twice as long) and we have no idea why. we think its because of sexual advertising. long sexy legs
The Humble Dung Beetle (Copris lunaris), dung beetles are actually one of the few insects that exhibit parental care! both male and female dung beetles care for their larvaeas their children eat the shit theyve rolled up. a loving family
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