Shining More Light on the Beetles

Summary

With the firefly lighting the way, we can begin to understand the role of Coleoptera in nature as the ongoing and difficult task of being an evolutionary force, recycling death into life for a timely individual metamorphosis or for the timeless emergent progression of life. Landing a grasp of the variations on this theme relative to other key elements of this order, and its families and species, will inspire more opportunities for prescriptions and cures from remedies of this largest order of living things.

Key words

Insecta - Beetles - Coleoptera - Lamprohiza splendidula (Firefly) - Coccinella septempunctata (Ladybug) - Laricobius nigrinus (Tiny black beetle) - Dendroctonus ponderosae (Mountain pine beetle) - Enoclerus spegeus - Laricobius - Necrobia (Bone beetle) - Scarabaeoidea (Dung beetles) - Passilidae (Bess bugs) - Doryphora/Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Colorado potato beetle) - Cantharis (Spanish fly) - Meloe proscarabaeus (Oil beetle) - Caribidae (Ground beetles)

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