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Nature's overachievers: one in four animals on Earth wears their armor.
means An order of insects with hardened forewings forming a protective shell over membranous flight wings.
from From Old English bitela, the biter — literally the little biting one, kin to the verb bite.
Sheer numbersAround 400,000 named species, more than any group.
ColeopteraName means sheathed wing in Greek.
Divine fanGeneticist Haldane quipped God loves beetles inordinately.