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by todd8 2364 days ago
What a clever idea!

By the way, there are over 400,000 naturally occurring species of beetles. Beetles make up 25% of all animal forms according to Wikipedia.

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There's been some new work that throws that percentage into doubt: https://www.insidescience.org/news/move-over-beetles-new-cha...
Reminds me of the (possibly apocryphal) Haldane quote, on what nature revealed about the mind of God: "An inordinate fondness for beetles."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._B._S._Haldane

Humans: by mass, a very insignificant species.
Not among land mammals: https://xkcd.com/1338/