Beetle

Metallic green, yellow, and copper colored beetle in Malaysia.

There are more kinds of beetles than any other group of animals on the planet. More than 450,000 species of beetles have been found.

Beetles are insects that range from the ladybug found in your garden to the giant stag beetles that live in the rainforest.
Schoenherr's blue weevil (Eupholus schoenherri - Curculionidae family), a spectacular blue and turquoise beetle from New Guinea


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