Beetle
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Beetles (Order Coleoptera) make up the largest order in the insect kingdom.
Identification
Life Cycle
Beetles undergo complete metamorphosis.
Habitat
Taxonomy
Number of species
There are 28,600 species found in North America, and 290,000 worldwide.
Subdivisions
There are four suborders in this order.
Bibliography
Borrer, DJ and RE White. A Field Guide to Insects: America north of Mexico. Houghton Mifflin Company: Boston, 1970. ISBN 0-395-91170-2
Milne, L and M Milne. National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Insects & Spiders. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.: 1995. ISBN 0-394-50763-0
Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Accessed June 4 2008.