Editing Beetle (section)

===Eusociality===
[[Eusociality]] involves cooperative brood care (including brood care of offspring from other individuals), overlapping generations within a colony of adults, and a division of labor into reproductive and non-reproductive groups.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Crespi, B. J. |author2=Yanega, D. |title=The definition of eusociality |journal=[[Behavioral Ecology]] |date=1995 |volume=6 |issue=1 |pages=109–115 |doi=10.1093/beheco/6.1.109}}</ref> Few organisms outside [[Hymenoptera]] exhibit this behavior; the only beetle to do so is the weevil ''[[Austroplatypus incompertus]]''.<ref name=Kent1992>{{cite journal |author1=Kent, D. S. |author2=Simpson, J. A. |name-list-style=amp | year=1992 | title=Eusociality in the beetle ''Austroplatypus incompertus'' (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) | journal=[[Naturwissenschaften]] |volume=79 |issue=2 |pages=86–87 |doi=10.1007/BF01131810|bibcode = 1992NW.....79...86K|s2cid=35534268 }}</ref> This [[Australia]]n species lives in horizontal networks of tunnels, in the [[heartwood]] of ''[[Eucalyptus]]'' trees. It is one of more than 300 species of wood-boring [[Ambrosia beetle]]s which distribute the spores of ambrosia fungi.<ref name="bee">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg13418203.100-science-the-australian-beetle-that-behaves-like-a-bee.html |title=Science: The Australian beetle that behaves like a bee |magazine=New Scientist |date=1992-05-09 |access-date=2010-10-31}}</ref> The fungi grow in the beetles' tunnels, providing food for the beetles and their larvae; female offspring remain in the tunnels and maintain the fungal growth, probably never reproducing.<ref name="bee"/><ref name=Kent1992/> Cooperative brood care is also found in the bess beetles ([[Passalidae]]) where the larvae feed on the semi-digested faeces of the adults.<ref>{{cite journal| title=Social behavior in Passalid beetles (Coleoptera: Passalidae): Cooperative brood care| first1=Jack C.| last1=Schuster| first2=Laura B.| last2=Schuster| journal=Florida Entomologist| volume=68| issue=2| year=1985| pages=266–272| url=http://journals.fcla.edu/flaent/article/viewFile/58011/55690| doi=10.2307/3494359| jstor=3494359| access-date=March 17, 2017| archive-date=March 2, 2016| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160302014348/http://journals.fcla.edu/flaent/article/viewFile/58011/55690}}</ref>