Jennifer McMahon

I found many treasures in the woods over the years: shotgun shells, empty Colt 45 bottles, old railroad spikes, orange and black beetles eating a dead mouse, pebbles that looked just like teeth, old stone walls and cellar holes, a rusted out frying pan, the skull of a cat.

American Novelist

Steve Backshall

I was always really into the facts and figures and the statistics about nature and I always loved learning about it and having a new fact on hand. For me it was non-stop dirt, climbing trees and catching lizards and beetles. That was my thing as soon as I could crawl.

John Muir

Beetles and butterflies are sometimes restricted to small areas. Each mountain in a range, and even the different zones of a mountain, may have its own peculiar species. But the house-fly seems to be everywhere. I wonder if any island in mid-ocean is flyless.

American Environmentalist

Noam Chomsky

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.

American Activist

John B. S. Haldane

If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles.

British Scientist

Bruce Grobbelaar

Losing a game is not a tragedy after experiencing border raids and having to eat beetles because you are out of rations.

Zimbabwean Athlete

Jackie Coogan

Fester never talked in the 'Addams Family' cartoons. So I raised my voice an octave and I gave him a beetling look.

Elif Batuman

Read enough about the dung beetle, and a picture of its character emerges: patient, optimistic, uncomplaining.

American Author

Mort Walker

Beetle Bailey is actually me, in uniform. I've got about 20 characters, and they're all after friends of mine.

American Artist

Eva Green

Some people collect butterflies - I love beetles.

French Actress

Use 'beetle' when discussing entomology, the study of insects, or when identifying insect species.

Entomology Terms

'Beetle' refers to over 350,000 species, highlighting the diversity of these insects.

Variety of Beetles

Some beetles serve as indicators of environmental health or changes.

Environmental Indicators

The verb form of 'beetle' conveys moving with speed, often in a bustling or awkward manner.

Quick Movement

'Beetle' suggests activity without a clear purpose, moving around busily but without a goal.

Aimless Activity

The verb 'beetle' is commonly used in British English, less so in American English.

British English

 Now this is a large species of Rove beetle. It tends to live around decaying plant matter. So places like this are amazing for it because it's a ferocious predator. So that's where it likes to hunt all of its invertebrates. It's very quick, and it's also got a couple of defence mechanisms and threat displays so it can raise up

Discovering Wildlife in...

 But why do organisms exhibit these different symmetries? Does body symmetry tell us anything about an animal's lifestyle? Let's look at one particular bilaterally symmetric animals. In this camp, we have foxes, beetles, sharks, butterflies, and, of course, humans.

The science of symmetry...

 disperse them these are deep patterns what happens is I bought one material system that tightened composite that that beetle is made of has all the functionality it needs what it does is it adds information to matter it has structure to matter so that when the

Creating a Bio-Industrial...

 they consume the dung before metamorphosing into a pupa and then an adult beetle. Besides clearing dung, the actions of these beetles have considerable ecological importance. For one, they serve as secondary seed dispersers. Dung from monkeys, wild pigs,

Why isn't the world...

 Now, this is a bit stunning. How can it be that not seeing the world accurately gives us a survival advantage? That is a bit counterintuitive. But remember the jewel beetle. The jewel beetle survived for thousands, perhaps millions of years,

Do we see reality as it...

 butterflies, moths, flies, wasps, beetles, even birds and bats, who together help pollinate many species of trees, shrubs and other flowering plants. In return, flowering plants are an abundant and diverse food source for pollinators.

How bees help plants...

 if you see that shiny exoskeleton these green emerald shiny beetle in the sunlight it's just so amazing that a beetle that lives in poop all of its life is so pretty the dung beetle fauna in Colorado is very poor is impoverished

Meet a Beautiful Beetle...

 their heads down their bottoms up and use their super strong front legs to roll away this dung helped feel with a fly problem and recycle the dung for a positive purpose male and female dung beetles work together to assemble a

African Dung Beetle PIPE...

 this californian desert hardly seems to be the best place to find nurse maids but blister beetles have an amazing way of discovering them it starts simply enough with the female

Sir David Attenborough...

 dead wood now his quest begins to find a mate before the end of his short adult life whilst beetles use the trees for food another creature uses them to build

Beetle

A type of small insect with a hard shell-like back.

Often appears as...

To move quickly or aimlessly.

Often appears as...

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