beetles

Beetles are an order of insects that belong to the class of pterygoids

Beetles have a very strong sense of smell that helps them to distinguish other insects at great distances sometimes and to find food for them and their young. Sometimes a third eye is on top of her head, but her sense of sight is not very important to her, she is sensitive to changes in light but she can't see things clearly unless she is very close to her

Some larvae of beetles eat wood, there are stag beetles with forked horns that have larvae or worms that live three years and they eat worn wooden poles, and among the most severely harmful wood gnats are 7 brownish-colored beetles called furniture beetles, their white larvae can make minute holes. In the furniture or in other wood in the house, there is also a beetle at the hour of death, which is an insect much larger than that, and it was called by this name because it makes a sound that people thought was a harbinger of death, and it spoke by hitting its head on the wood, and its worms remain for about three years In oak wood in the ceilings of houses until you damage them

Not all beetles are harmful. The red and black burial beetles are useful in the cleaning process. They smell the carcass of a mouse or a bird for example and begin to dig with their legs under the carcass. If the carcass falls into the hole, the beetles cover it with dirt, then eat some of this worn out meat and lay their eggs on The corpse even if the eggs hatched, the worms feed on the corpse as well, and there is also the ladybird beetle, which is useful because it eats harmful insects, and fruit producers often bring it to fruit farms to exterminate the insects that damage trees, and other wood-carnivoring beetles are useful if it breaks up the wood land and eventually turns it into soil

Some beetles live in the water and cannot remain on land for only a short time. They usually swim to the surface of the water to inhale through breathing holes on the edges of their abdominal cavity. For example, there is the great water beetle, which is large in size, dark brown, ascends to the surface of the water and pushes the tip of its abdomen out. It raises its front wings to inhale the air, then descends under the water again, carrying the air with it, and this process is repeated to obtain new air whenever the previous amount of it is exhausted

Beetles have hard and shiny front wings, which cover most of their body and protect the delicate hind wings. They are often beautiful in colour, and there are a quarter of a million different species of beetles. Some of them are so small that they cannot be seen easily. Others, such as goliath beetles and hercules, are the size of a human hand

The larvae of beetles are called scarabs. Bread beetles and woodlice beetles burrow into wood, and these tunnels damage furniture. Salol beetle protozoa, called saluliate, live in the soil and eat the roots of plants. And if the harvested salol beetle flips on its back, it jumps into the air, making a strong click, and for this reason it is also called the snapping beetle.

The cunning burial beetle buries the carcasses of small animals and lays eggs in them. The eggs hatch, the larvae come out and eat the carrion, the larvae make their own light. At night, females light up to attract males. The seven-pointed ladybird is a small, round beetle that eats other insects such as invertebrates, and is very useful in the garden