The Beatles
It’s not easy to find a plausible connection between The Fab Four and the approximately 60,000 insect species comprised by the order Coleoptera. The Beatles were a band of shag-headed Liverpudlians, who forged a magnitude of fame and cultural influence like no other “mere musicians” before them. Meanwhile, the humble little hard-shelled creepy crawlies we call simply “beetles” (note the double “e” and lower-case “b”), have exerted a much subtler influence over millions of years. They perform vital, if un-recognized, functions in almost all of the Earth’s ecosystems. Some of them fly. Some of them are as big as a small camcorder. Some as small as the head of a pin. Some roll dung into balls they push along without complaint, though they are 1,000 times heavier than themselves. Some will crawl into the ear canal of a sleeping man and eat his brain — lololol.
Big Red Bullfrog
