In the world of systematic taxonomists, the first week of November 2017 looked like any other, is to say, it was extraordinary. It began with 95 new types of beetle from Madagascar. But this was only the As the week progressed, it forth something else. It delivered an infinite variety of and wonderful creatures. We live in an invertebrate world. Of all animal species, fewer than one in every 200 are mammals, and a huge proportion of those are rodents. Looked at from the point of of species diversity, we mammals are just a handful of mice on a globe full of beetles. The great of those beetles are herbivores native to the tropics. So, if you really want to understand the total diversity of life on Earth you need to out how many types of beetle munch on every variety of tropical tree.