And look at what the beetle does.

Silphidae is a family of beetles that are known commonly as large carrion beetles, carrion beetles or burying beetles.

And that's exactly what the beetles are doing here.

So obviously beetles can see polarized light.

So, according to dung beetles, dung is pretty good.

Well, did you know that beetles actually kiss?

Think of the country clergyman or squire collecting his beetles or fossils,

Beetles, I was reminded, have the most romantic flirtation in the animal kingdom.

Within the endopterygotes, the closest living relatives of Neuropterida are the beetles.

And this one is evolved to mimic a glossy metallic surface you see on some beetles.

Okay, so what we've got so far is, what are beetles doing?

__NOTOC__Tiger beetles are a large group of beetles known for their aggressive predatory habits and running speed.

There are scavenger beetles that pick the skin and flesh off of bones in museums.

And if you look over here, with boots they climb onto the ball far less often when they had no boots on.

Examples of this behavior may be found in the world of beetles, birds, mammals and more.

There are beetles that roll little balls of dung great distances across the desert floor to feed to their hatchlings.

The family is among the largest of the beetles, with some 15,000 species known in 450 genera.

Something between 20 and 25 percent of all life forms on the planet, including plants, are beetles.

Now wouldn't you know it, there's some beetles that just love to make love at that temperature.

Now I clicked on this on purpose, but if I'd somehow gotten here by mistake, it does remind me, for the band, see The Beatles, for the car see Volkswagon Beetle, but I am here for beetle beetles.

Colombia is the country with more endemic species of butterflies, number 1 in terms of orchid species and approximately 7,000 species of beetles.

Insects Beneficial insects can include predators (such as ladybugs) of pest insects, and pollinators (such as bees, which are an integral part of the growth cycle of many crops).

When they arrived, brown domes made of crisscrossed branches and layers of multicolored mats would appear like crowds of dappled beetles on the outskirts of town.

The combined light from these beetles these are actually tiny beetles is so bright that fishermen out at sea can use them as navigating beacons to find their way back to their home rivers. It's stunning.

And we also cooled down the dung ball, so we were able to put the ball in the fridge, gave them a nice cool dung ball, and they climbed onto that ball far less often than when they had a hot ball.

He's born in Cameroon, which is smack in the middle of my tropics map, and more specifically his skeleton wound up in the Smithsonian museum getting picked clean by beetles.

As soon as the beetles come to the stage in life in which they mature to adulthood, the larva crawl from the water on the sturdy legs, and bury themselves in the mud for pupation.

The longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae also known as long horned beetles or longicorns) are a cosmopolitan family of beetles, typically characterized by extremely long antennae, which are often as long as or longer than the beetle's body.