Ground Beetle

Ground Beetle

Ground beetles are a large, cosmopolitan family of beetles, Carabidae, with more than 40,000 species worldwide, approximately 2,000 of which are found in North America and 2,700 in Europe.

Read more about Ground Beetle:  Description and Ecology, Relationship With Humans, Evolution and Systematics

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    “Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey production—only to produce a race of bed-wetters!”
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    “The sense of death is most in apprehension,
    And the poor beetle that we tread upon
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    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)