Beetle Bugs Stock Photo

Beetles are a group of insects which have the largest number of species. They are placed in the order Coleoptera, which means sheathed wing and contains more described species than in any other order in the animal kingdom, constituting about twenty-five percent of all known life-forms. [1] Forty percent of all described insect species are beetles (about 350, 000 species[1]), and new species are frequently discovered. Estimates put the total number of species, described and undescribed, at between 5 and 8 million.