Beetles

Known beetles include about 350,000 described species. In the United States, there are nearly 30,000 known species of beetles, which makes them the largest order in the animal kingdom. Beetles are unique and suitably diverse insects that come in a wide variety of shapes, forms, and colors and each can be found in equally diverse environments suited to lifestyles. and their specific food needs.

This number is growing constantly as taxonomists name new species. The beetles are such a large, diverse group that they have representatives that eat almost any food. They eat all parts of plants that live or die on land. Some are excellent hunters and carnivores. Some are scavengers and some are parasitic.

Beetles are small insects with amazing features. All their food includes fleas and other small insects. However, of the thousands of species of beetles, some variants do not eat insects. Instead, they depend on plant parts' survival, such as foliage and roots, for survival. Of the flea-eating species, most are active at night.

Beetles are perhaps the most effective of all beetles when it comes to killing fleas and other pests. Once this flea predator has reached adulthood, one beetle consumes between 50 and 60 insects daily.