#19 Beetle

#19 Beetle

Common Name: Beetle

Description

- Many beetles are oval or circular in shape

- Mainly black 

- They have an exoskeleton and are bilaterally symmetrical

- Beetles have hard fore wings called elytra that protect the delicate hind wings and abdomen

- Many beetles are herbivorous and have antennae

-  Beetles are not found in freezing temperatures

- Their bodies are made up of three main parts coated in the hard outer shell which are the head, thorax, and the abdomen of the beetle

- Beetles are the largest group of living organisms 

Taxonomy

Kindom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda 

Class: Insecta

Order: Coleoptera

Family: Corabidae

Ecology

- The relationship between the beetle and fungus is mutualism. It is mutualism because the adult beetle tunnels into a dead tree to lay its eggs while carrying fungal spores. 

- The larvae feed off of the fungus which digest and remove toxins

- Beetles are able to adapt to almost any kind of condition in their environments and are found all over the world

- Coleoptera is the largest order in the entire animal kingdom

- Some beetles are able to glow in the dark