Editing Beetle (section)

===In entertainment===
Fighting beetles are used [[insect fighting|for entertainment and gambling]]. This sport exploits the territorial behavior and mating competition of certain species of large beetles. In the [[Chiang Mai]] district of northern Thailand, male ''[[Xylotrupes]]'' rhinoceros beetles are caught in the wild and trained for fighting. Females are held inside a log to stimulate the fighting males with their pheromones.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Rennesson |first1=Stephane|last2=Cesard |first2=Nicolas |last3=Grimaud |first3=Emmanuel |title=Duels en miniature: la délicate mise en scène des combats de scarabées au nord de la Thaïlande |url=http://www7.inra.fr/opie-insectes/pdf/i151-renesson-et-al.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100821174942/http://www.inra.fr/opie-insectes/pdf/i151-renesson-et-al.pdf |archive-date=2010-08-21 |url-status=live |journal=Insectes |volume=3 |issue=151 |year=2008 | language=fr}}</ref> These fights may be competitive and involve gambling both money and property.<ref name='Costa-Neto'>{{cite journal |author1=Eraldo Medeiros Costa-Neto |title=Entertainment with insects: singing and fighting insects around the world. A brief review |journal=Etnobiología |volume=3 |pages=21–29 |date=2003 |url=https://dialnet.unirioja.es/descarga/articulo/5294425.pdf |access-date=January 30, 2021 }}</ref> In [[South Korea]] the [[Dytiscidae]] species ''[[Cybister tripunctatus]]'' is used in a roulette-like game.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Pemberton, R. W. |title=The Korean water beetle game |journal=Pan-Pacific Entomologist |date=1990 |volume=66 |issue=2 |pages=172–174}}</ref>

Beetles are sometimes used as instruments: the Onabasulu of [[Papua New Guinea]] historically used the "[[Hugu (instrument)|''hugu'']]" weevil ''[[Rhynchophorus ferrugineus]]'' as a musical instrument by letting the human mouth serve as a variable [[resonance chamber]] for the wing vibrations of the live adult beetle.<ref name='Costa-Neto'/>