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With more than 50,000 described species, the leaf beetle family is distributed worldwide and represents about a quarter of the species diversity of all herbivores.
The increase in carcass-eating beetles in the Loess Canyons is a good sign for the prairie as a whole, Roberts says. The giant insects are indicators of how grassland ecosystems are faring.