How are beetles different from other bugs?

Question

Give me a good answer. Keep the answer short, but enough to answer the question.

Answer 1

Yes.  Beetles are insects NOT bugs.  Bugs are Hemiptera.  Beetles are Coleoptera.  Each has it's own Order.  There are 26 Orders of Insecta.

The word "bug" used commonly could be any thing.  

Beetles are the only insect that have thick, veinless wings, often kept under a carapace, hard covering.

Answer 2

Beetles have a tough armor like set of wings that cover their wings used for flying. Their order, Coleoptera means "Sheath wings".  There are MANY types of beetles.  Some fly, some can't and some are aquatic.

At one seminar a young man asked the instructor how to tell a beneficial Beetle from one that isn't beneficial to man.  The Speaker told him to try to step on the beetle.  If it was too fact to step on, then it was one of the beneficial types because that meant it chased down other insects and ate them.

Answer 3

I'm not sure if this helps, but I know that beetles compose the largest order of organisms on the planet (i.e. there are more species of beetles than there are any other species in any other order/group of species).

Because of the great range and diversity of the species in this order, you also find them in pretty much every habitat - water, forests, deserts, etc. (but not polar regions).

Hope that helps, at least as a start.

UN

Answer 4

Your answer would be found in a classification guide to the orders of insects.  It would describe in a key what each order contained and how you would identify the insects in that order.