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
That’s exactly what a beetle would say
Three friends???
Friends???
I have a tamagotchi, my gf and my dog!
I hope I’m Ringo Star, he was always my favourite.
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.
The biomass of all living ants is greater than the biomass of every living human.
As long as we don’t count your mom.
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What if all my friends are beetles?
Start a band.
me rn
I’d do the math to calculate the number of negative beetles you are, but I don’t actually care that much
3 + X = 1
X = -2Yeah 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.
Them for every 4 friends, 3 are fake beetles
One of of every four mammal species are bats.
Okay, so 1 friend is a bat, one is a beetle, what are the other 2 friends? Don’t leave us hanging like that.
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.
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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.
Gregor Samsa time whoop whoop
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.
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.
Knowing my luck I’d be the Stuart Sutcliffe or Pete Best.
