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Three of those six also were damaged by Golden Buprestid beetles, which only survive if a utility pole isn’t properly sterilized during manufacturing, the report found.

On the theme of impulse control, a study of why male Buprestid beetles try to mate with a certain brand of Australian beer bottle netted the Ig Nobel biology prize for Darryl Gwynne and David Rentz, entomologists working for the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Canberra.

Many important families, such as Cicindelid�, Scarabœid�, Buprestid�, and the whole of the enormous series of the Phytophaga are either entirely absent or are only represented by a few introduced species.

Among the beetles the strange flat-bodied Malayan mormolyce is the largest of all the Carabid�, while the catoxantha is equally a giant among the Buprestid�.