Re: a wrong translation for over 40 years ?


"Sean Carroll" <seanc130@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Beetles are an entire order of insects, Coleoptera. There are more
described species of beetles than any other order of animals. Forty
percent of all described insect species (about 350 000) are beetles;
estimates put the total number of beetle species, described and
undescribed, at between 5 million and 8 million. (In fact, since most
animals are insects and most insects are beetles, it is technically
correct to say that all animal life on Earth is beetles, with a few
strange mutant varieties -- like, say, us.)

Your question, therefore, is meaningless. The 'beetle' of the 'Beatles' is
*any* beetle -- scarab, black, potato, or any of millions of others. It
was a take-off on Buddy Holly's band, the Crickets. It is also believed to
refer to another kind of 'beetle' -- a slang term back in the 50s for a
motorcycle girl (used in the movie 'The Wild One' with Marlon Brando). It
is also a pun on 'beat' music.

One thing is for certain: it has nothing to do with a cockroach. Whatever
dictionary told you that, get a new one. Cockroaches are the Order
Blattodea, not Coleoptera -- an entirely different group of insects. Order
Blattodea (cockroaches) is in the Superorder Exopterygota (along with
earwigs, grasshoppers, termites, mantids, lice, walking sticks, and many
others), while Order Coleoptera (beetles) is in the Superorder
Endopterygota (along with ants, bees, fleas, flies, and many others).
(Both of these superorders are in the Infraclass Neoptera of the Subclass
Pterygota of the Class Insecta, though.)

--Sean
http://spclsd223.livejournal.com/


Thank you Sean... but what do they taste like?

www.Shemakhan.com


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