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A beetle is an insect belonging to the order Coleoptera.

Beetle or The Beetle may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• Beetle (comics), the alias of a number of characters in Marvel Comics
• Beetle (game), a British party game
• Beetle (solitaire), a card game
• the title character of Beetle Bailey, an American newspaper comic strip
• The Beetle (film), a 1919 British silent film
• The Beetle (novel), an 1897 novel by Richard Marsh

People

• Alan Ackerman Beetle (1913–2003), U.S. botanist
• Walter Bedell Smith (1895–1961), U.S. Army general nicknamed "Beetle"

Places

• Beetle, Kentucky, United States
• Beetle Spur, Mount Patrick, Antarctica

Transportation

• Volkswagen Beetle (made 1938–2003), or two Volkswagen models with derivative styling:
  • Volkswagen New Beetle (made 1997–2010)
  • Volkswagen Beetle (A5) (made from 2011)
• Beetle (JR Kyushu), a Japanese ferry service
• Beetle Cat, a boat built by Beetle, Inc.

Other uses

• GE Beetle a mobile manipulator for nuclear material
• Beetle tank, or Goliath tracked mine, a German World War II unmanned fighting vehicle
• Alexandria Blue Anchors, or Alexandria Beetles, a former baseball team
• Beetle (ASIC), an application-specific integrated circuit
• Beetle, a large wooden mallet hammer

See also

• American Beetles, a zoology book
• The American Beetles, a stage name used by The Ardells, a music band from Florida during the 1960s
• The Beatles (disambiguation)
• Betel, a leaf often chewed
• Betel nut, or Areca nut