An inordinate fondness for beetles
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Ground beetles, in the garden pitfall trap during a seven day period (nb these are not to scale). There were other kinds of beetles in the trap - several species of Rove beetles for example these are just the Carabidae - Ground Beetles The biologist J.B.S. Haldane is reputed to have been asked what could be concluded about the nature of god from a study of his creation - his reply was that he has - "An inordinate fondness for beetles." Yes there are a lot of beetle species - nature has got beetles coming out of its ears. I had my own taste of this during my week long 'beetle drive' (fans of pointless stuff your parents used to do should check out the beetle drive ). I put a pitfall trap in the garden - this being a glass jar placed into a hole in the ground. Beetles stumble into the trap and can't get out - simple, yet...erm...simple. Almost every time I inspected the trap - I would see one or two ground beetles scurrying around and bumping into each