The food additive E120, also known as "Cochineal", is made using bugs. 70,000 are used to make one pound. It is bad for you if you are allergic to aspirin and it can make you hyperactive.

 Vegetarians have asked for it to be no longer used in food, however it still used to make red coloured Smarties. Red is the most popular colour for Smarties (M & M’s)

A new type of beetle is discovered at roughly one an hour. Since 1700, the rate has been no more than six hours.

There are 2,000 coleopterists (a collective term for betles & weevils, who have their forewings modified into 'sheaths' to protect the hind wings and biting mouth parts) in the world and 10,000,000 species of beetle, making up around two-thirds of all insects.

 If all forms of animal and plant life were put in a line, every fifth creature would be a beetle. Every tenth would be a weevil.