beetle

It is smaller than your fingernail, but this hairy beetle is one of the biggest single threats to the UK's forests.

Their leaves feed caterpillars, their bark shelters bats and beetles, and their acorns sustain mammals and birds through the winter.

And when describing her underachieving brother’s shortcomings, she says, “He’s got the brains of a dung beetle and the ambitions of a French bureaucrat.”

But the number of pests have increased too including the tiny, shiny rosemary beetle which has exploded in number this year.

In February, a passenger allegedly tried to smuggle in about $1,500 worth of giant live beetles in snack bags.