Coleoptera

• Title

  Coleoptera

• Definition

  An order of insects including the beetles and weevils. Species of Coleoptera, can be pollinators and predators of plants.

• Notes

  Species of Coleoptera can be pollinators, predators, and rarely secxondary dispersers of plants (e.g., dung beetles that carry away the dung of monkeys in which seeds occur).

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