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Beetles

Fireflies and Ladybirds are part of
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the beetle family.
There are more species of beetles on Carnivorous beetles can consume
Earth than any other creature. 4 kg of animal flesh in one week.

Beetles have lived on our Earth for Beetles have very strong jaws.
about 300 million years. Beetle is derived from Anglo-Saxon
BITAN, meaning “TO BITE”.
The Bombardier beetle can shoot
boiling hot poison at predators. Ladybirds beat their wings about
85 times a second while in flight.
The horns of a Rhinoceros beetle can be
longer than their bodies. Adult beetles have two pairs of wings.

Siberian Beetles can survive in Most beetles only live for about a year.
temperatures as low as minus The Goliath beetle weighs the same as a
40 degrees.
complete quarter-pound hamburger.
The Hercules Beetle can grow big CONTROL
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Beetles are omnivorous, in fact they All Pest Control Undertaken Lance Leadbeter
will eat just about anything. Trick Questions

Diving beetles can breathe underwater. (You have been warned)

Many beetles communicate by rubbing
parts of their bodies together. 1. A pony is tied to a 20-foot rope and
there is a bale of hay 25-feet from her.
The Feather-winged Beetle, the The pony is still able to eat the hay, how
world’s smallest insect, can fit on the is this possible?
head of a pin. 2. A man was walking in the park and it
started to rain very heavily. He wasn’t
Dung Beetles, can move a ball of dung wearing a hat and didn’t have an
that’s 50 times their own weight. umbrella. His jacket and trousers were
soaking wet, but not a hair on his head
Leaf Beetles are so poisonous that got wet. How is this possible?
hunters dip their arrow heads in
their juices. (Answers on the back page)

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