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Why are there so many species of beetles?
| It's adaptive radiation in response to the diversity of angiosperms!
| There's only Paul, John, Ringo, and George? That's not that many.
| Doujin?
| Interspecies mating
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| An entomologist at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Chaboo has long wondered why the kingdom of life is so skewed toward beetles. Many biologists have wondered the same thing, for a long time. Of the roughly 1 million named insect species on Earth, about 400,000 are beetles. And that’s just the beetles described so far. Scientists typically describe thousands of new species each year. So—why so many beetle species? “We don’t know the precise answer,” says Chaboo.