Beetles Beetles are one of the most successful living creatures on Earth About 350 000 beetle species are known to science but there are likely thousands more These amazing insects have survived on Earth for more than 270 million years They have adapted to nearly every environment in the
XTREME FACT Beetles are the Earth's largest group of animals They represent one fifth of all known living organisms S
Body Parts Beetles have six legs and three distinct body parts head thorax and abdomen They belong to the order coleoptera which means sheath wings Their flying wings are covered by a protective second pair of wings called the elytra 9 Antennae Head Thorax Claw Leg Abdomen
Flying Wings XTREME FACT Beetles vary from each other in their antenna structure number of foot segments connections between body parts and the number of wings they have Elytra
