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[–] [email protected] 44 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

There are more kinds of beetles in the world than any other animal.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I needed a clarification, Wikipedia had your back.

The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 described species, is the largest of all orders, constituting almost 40% of described insects and 25% of all known animal species; new species are discovered frequently, with estimates suggesting that there are between 0.9 and 2.1 million total species.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beetle

[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Note that this is described species. Beetles are really easy to preserve and are often super cool. There are likely more species in other orders, but they haven't had as much work done on them. Hymenoptera, for example, with all of the parasitic wasps probably has more species but they can be so freaking small and difficult to work with.

Sorry, I am like a wanna be entomologist who works with akshual entomologists and this is one of the things that triggers them

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I recently heard a tidbit that we think there's less bugs in the air because windshields aren't as dirty. Like, if that's our indicator on such a huge and fundamental part of life on this planet... Less bugs on the windshield. We have no idea

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Wot?

John

Paul

George

Ringo

That’s FOUR. Only four.