(simile) Bright red in colour; used of the human face when a person is embarrassed.

Chrysolopus spectabilis, a weevil found in south-eastern Australia, with metallic green patterns on its body.

Any of a large cosmopolitan family of beetles, Carabidae. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see ground, beetle.

Any of the scarab beetles of the subfamily Trichiinae.

Epilachna varivestis, a species of lady beetle that is a notorious agricultural pest.

plural of Mexican bean beetle

plural of grain beetle

Any of several beetles from the families Silvanidae and Laemophloeidae that infest grains and grain products.

plural of carrion beetle

sexton beetle; necrophore