Beetles/Beatles

It wasn't until this year that I realized the "beetles" and "beatles" were 2 different words! Of course they are homonyms, but the former is an insect and the latter is a musical group. For more than 40 years I have been thinking that the "Beatles" was a strange name for a musical group. (At the same time, the 60s, there was another group called the "Turtles".) And I guess because the musical group had a good "beat", they called themselves the "Beatles". Oh, now I get it!

Anyway, beetles are big in Taiwan, that it as a hobby.

They are collected like butterflies and mounted.

And they are sold live as pets in a terrarium. They are sometimes sold as larvae so the owner can watch them molt into an adult beetle. Kind of like caterpillar to cocoon to butterfly.

They are kind of cute, probably don't each much. For children and adults they look like a dinosaur of manageable size.

This is a Hair Salon, it was probably named for that musical group of moptops.