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We're all beetles on this blessed day.
It was purely a guess, but I wondered if butterflies and moths rank up there in terms of number of species. Sure enough I checked Wikipedia and apparently it's the second largest order of insects.
Back in the day when I first discovered Wikipedia Random https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random, I was always amazed at how often a species of moth/butterfly or a species of beetle would show up. Like if the feature is truly and genuinely completely randomly showing me a page on Wikipedia, and assuming there's not even a page for each and every species of these insects, it was still impressively frequent.
Though, I just played with the link for a few seconds as I was typing this up, and I didn't get one single link to an insect, so maybe they've changed how they pull random stuff or maybe the ratios of insect to non-insect articles has changed over the years.