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Interesting facts
One of the oldest discoveries of insect art is a 14,000-year-old engraving of a cricket found in a French cave.
People who are interested in insects can be called entomophiles. Entomo comes from the Ancient Greek á¼”ντομος which actually can be translated "dissected" and appears in context with dissecting insects. Entomo came to mean insect and entomophile, insect lover.
Insects are the largest and most diverse group of organisms on Earth. There are nearly 1 million species of insects. Though some scientists believe the actual number may exceed 20 million! Insects make up about 75% of all described animal species.
More than 40% of insect species are declining and a third are endangered. The rate of extinction is eight times faster than that of mammals, birds and reptiles.
Beetles can rehydrate themselves by opening their rectums and drinking trace amounts of water floating in the air. They can also reabsorb water from their poop.
The first beetle-like organisms in the fossil record date back to the Permian Period, roughly 270 million years ago.
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