Beetles

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Caterpillar. © Wayne Kliewer

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Brown hairstreak butterfly at Alners Gorse, Dorset, UK. © Megan Shersby

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The Beatles (l to r) Ringo Starr, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison show off their MBE medals after their investiture at Buckingham Palace. © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis/Getty

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Wasp beetle on a dandelion. © Minh Hoang Cong/500px/Getty

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Male stag beetle in hand. © Aimi MacInnes

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Short-necked oil beetle. © Annie Haycock

One of the UK’s rarest oil beetles found in Wales

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Harlequin ladybirds emerging on a sunny spring day in the UK. © Ian Redding/Getty

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Adult tansy beetle at WWT Welney © Andy Brown

Endangered beetle recorded in a new county

A dor beetle, one of the dung beetle species in the UK, on horse faeces. © Arterra/UIG/Getty

Dung beetle populations are being killed off by cattle medication