A beetle

Coleopterology is the scientific study of beetles (insects of the order Coleoptera). Practitioners are termed coleopterists. Photograph of a Blister Beetle (Lytta magister) above Mesquite Springs in Death Valley National Park. ... Photograph of a Blister Beetle (Lytta magister) above Mesquite Springs in Death Valley National Park. ... Suborders Adephaga Archostemata Myxophaga Polyphaga See subgroups of the order Coleoptera Wikispecies has information related to: Coleoptera Beetles are the most diverse group of insects. ... Orders See taxonomy Insects are invertebrates that are taxonomically referred to as the class Insecta. ... For other uses, see Beetle (disambiguation). ...

As a subfield of entomology, coleopterists share many of the concerns of general entomologists. Taxonomy is somewhat more important to coleopterology, because of the sheer number of beetle species to organize. Etymology, the study of the origin of words, is sometimes misspelled as Entomology or Entymology. Etymology redirects here. ...

When speaking informally, coleopterists sometimes refer to their study as beetling. My dad happens to be an avid beetler. He loves beetles. I, personally, am not very fond of the little buggers. They scare me, seeing as they are rather creepy crawly. As Sahil Prasada would say, "Dem beetles be mad nasty, yo. I burn dem wid a magnifyin glass." Beetles are a tasty dish in many countries. In fact, as a small boy, beetle burgers were one of my favorite dishes in school. I have not done any major beetling since then. According to Sahil, "Da most balla-est beetle eva be dat bug from Charlotte's Web. She be writin words in her web wid silk, yo. Dat's supa-fly dawg. Words in silk. Dat ain't no countafeit gangsta. Beetle charlotte represent." I like to quote sahil on beetles, as he is the world's reigning czar of beetle experts.

Notable coleopterists include:

• Charles Darwin
• Horace Donisthorpe

See list of coleopterists for more. Charles Robert Darwin FRS (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist [1] who achieved lasting fame by producing considerable evidence that species originated through evolutionary change, at the same time proposing the scientific theory that natural selection is the mechanism by which such change occurs. ... Image:Donisthorpe. ... Notable students of coleopterology (beetles) include the following. ...

Journals

• The Coleopterist (UK)