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===As pets=== Some species of beetle are kept as [[pet]]s, for example diving beetles ([[Dytiscidae]]) may be kept in a domestic fresh water tank.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/pdffiles/FR/FR39800.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202054428/https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/pdffiles/FR/FR39800.pdf |archive-date=2017-02-02 |url-status=live |title=Predaceous Diving Beetles as Pets and the Self-Cleaning Aquarium |author1=Bateman, C. |author2=Hulcr, J. |date=2016 |publisher=[[University of Florida]] (IFAS Extension) |access-date=January 27, 2017 }}</ref> [[File:Malay Archipelago Beetles.jpg|thumb|"Remarkable Beetles Found at Simunjon, Borneo".{{efn|The plate was labelled "Neocerambyx Γ¦neas, Cladognathus tarandus, Diurus furcellatus, Ectatorhinus Wallacei, Megacriodes Saundersii, Cyriopalpus Wallacei".}} A few of the 2,000 species of beetle collected by [[Alfred Russel Wallace]] in [[Borneo]]]] In [[Japan]] the practice of keeping horned rhinoceros beetles ([[Dynastinae]]) and stag beetles ([[Lucanidae]]) is particularly popular amongst young boys.<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/mcguire/kawahara/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Kawahara_2007_Am_Ent_sm.pdf |title=Thirty-foot telescopic nets, bug-collecting video games, and beetle pets: Entomology in modern Japan |author=Kawahara, A. Y. |date=2007 |journal=American Entomologist |volume=53 |issue=3 |pages=160β172 |doi=10.1093/ae/53.3.160 |access-date=January 27, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160412042904/http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/mcguire/kawahara/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Kawahara_2007_Am_Ent_sm.pdf |archive-date=April 12, 2016 }}</ref> Such is the popularity in Japan that [[vending machines]] dispensing live beetles were developed in 1999, each holding up to 100 stag beetles.<ref>{{cite news |last=May |first=Mitchell |date=July 11, 1999 |title=Yen For Bugs |newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]] |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1999/07/11/yen-for-bugs/ |access-date=2017-01-27}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Watts |first=Jonathan |date=August 11, 1999 |title=Vending machine beetles |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/aug/11/jonathanwatts |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=January 27, 2017}}</ref>
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