Editing Beetle (section)

===As food and medicine===
{{See also|Entomophagy|Insects as food}}
[[File:Mealworm 01 Pengo.jpg|thumb|Mealworms in a bowl for [[Entomophagy|human consumption]]]]

Beetles are the most widely eaten insects, with about 344 species used as food, usually at the larval stage.<ref>{{cite book|title=Creepy crawly cuisine: the gourmet guide to edible insects |last=Ramos-Elorduy |first=Julieta|author2=Menzel, Peter |year=1998 |publisher=Inner Traditions / Bear & Company |isbn=978-0-89281-747-4 |page=5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q7f1LkFz11gC}}</ref> The [[mealworm]] (the larva of the [[darkling beetle]]) and the [[rhinoceros beetle]] are among the species commonly eaten.<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Holland |first1=Jennifer S. |title=U.N. Urges Eating Insects; 8 Popular Bugs to Try |url=http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/13/130514-edible-insects-entomophagy-science-food-bugs-beetles/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130606223425/http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/13/130514-edible-insects-entomophagy-science-food-bugs-beetles |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 6, 2013 |magazine=National Geographic |access-date=January 26, 2017 |date=May 14, 2013}}</ref> A wide range of species is also used in [[folk medicine]] to treat those suffering from a variety of disorders and illnesses, though this is done without clinical studies supporting the efficacy of such treatments.<ref name=Meyer-Rochow>{{cite journal |last=Meyer-Rochow | first=V. B. |title=Therapeutic arthropods and other, largely terrestrial, folk-medicinally important invertebrates: a comparative survey and review. |journal=Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine| date=January 2017| volume=13 |issue=9 |page=9| doi=10.1186/s13002-017-0136-0| pmid=28173820 | pmc=5296966 | doi-access=free }}</ref>