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
  • "Beetles", an alien race from The Eternaut
  • 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 2011–2019)
  • 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