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[–] kep@lemmy.world 77 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

There's a grain of truth in here, but not quite. One in every four or so (not quite, but we can roll with it regardless) identified species of animal is a beetle. Not one in every four animals, by population nor overall species.

The reasons for this is are many, but may include because beetles are big, easy to catch, agriculturally-significant, and are particularly easy to pin and study, dramatically boosting the count of beetle species we work with on an academic level (lending to higher identification rates). There are also just a shitload of beetle species, naturally.

Scientists estimate something closer to ~10 million species of animals, which would still make beetles a huge percentage of the species, but a far cry from 25%. If you looked at the total number (estimated) of individual animals, beetles are pretty insignificant.

Source: Studied entomology and love me some Coleoptera

[–] greenfish@lemmy.world 56 points 2 years ago

That's exactly what a beetle would say

[–] klemptor@lemmy.ml 52 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] ColonelSanders@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago
[–] BitsOfBeard@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago

I have a tamagotchi, my gf and my dog!

[–] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 40 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I hope I'm Ringo Star, he was always my favourite.

[–] Nepenthe@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

By namesake, my child should be a Beatle. Not sure if this means I am or that I have to marry a beetle to genetically make that happen. The whole question feels incestuous.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 2 years ago

The biomass of all living ants is greater than the biomass of every living human.

As long as we don't count your mom.

[–] xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 14 points 2 years ago (3 children)

What if all my friends are beetles?

[–] SheDiceToday@eslemmy.es 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'd do the math to calculate the number of negative beetles you are, but I don't actually care that much

[–] Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

3 + X = 1
X = -2

Yeah that took me a bit to come up with, and it feels wrong for some reason, but I can't place it and it seems to check out.

[–] drew_belloc@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago

Them for every 4 friends, 3 are fake beetles

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Okay, so 1 friend is a bat, one is a beetle, what are the other 2 friends? Don't leave us hanging like that.

[–] Nepenthe@kbin.social 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Don’t leave us hanging

Found the bat.

One of them is probably a plankton, by the way. 95% of all marine life is plankton.

[–] NewAgeOldPerson@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Juice yourself

[–] python@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Gregor Samsa time whoop whoop

[–] Oiconomia@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

Have you awoken one morning from unsettling dreams and found yourself changed into a monstrous vermin in your bed? Then this tweet is for you.

[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Welcome to the wonderful world of statistics, shit can look pretty fucky sometimes

Edit: Basically this is a question of distribution in regards to statistics. Ie: statistically speaking you're almost completely hydrogen because our universe is almost completely hydrogen.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

For every different type of beetle there is, and the 1800s tell us there are a great many, there exists a species of parasitic wasp that uniquely targets that beetle.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Knowing my luck I'd be the Stuart Sutcliffe or Pete Best.