Beetle triumphfor Liverpool

A museum in Liverpool has achieved a world first by successfully breeding an Indian ground beetle in captivity.

In 1968 the city famously exported its own Beatles to India to great acclaim.

Forty-one years later India sent Liverpool’s World Museum Bug House eight of the ground beetles (Anthia sexguttata) with the intention of breeding them, something never successfully achieved before.

Now an egg hidden in the sand by a female has hatched.

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