be beetle

Also, if you forget someone's name, call them Muhammad. It's the most common name, and therefore, you're most likely going to be correct.

This is on the same level as "everyone has one breast and one testicle on average".
- Most people have an above-average number of arms.
- Yeah, I think the joke originally is to call someone with an unknown name Muhammed Kim because Muhammed is the most common first name and Kim is the most common family name.
Thanks for the advice, Muhammad.

Who even has three friends?

I do!
I mean, I have a friend, and they have two other friends, so therefore I have three friends... right?
- You're the beetle
♫ He roller-coaster, he got early warning
He got muddy water, he one mojo filter
He says: “One and one and one is three”
Got to be good-looking ‘cause he's so hard to see ♫

My three friends are beetles and I get by with a little help from them

No, those are a classic bug-style car design, you’re thinking of The Beatles

I wonder which member of the Beatles was actually a beetle

Ringo of course

is this by number of species or number of organisms? diversity and populousness are not necessarily related

20-25% of all mammal species are bats. Think of the last 4-5 different mammals you've seen. Is your dog actually a bat? Seems likely.

I'm so grateful for the red outline, nobody could understand how these two brief concepts fit together as a joke without it.

Is that because they were 4 that they called their band the beatles ?

OP outing themselves for not having any beetle friends.
Neeeeeerd

Calm down there, Kafka!

One out of every four species. Very different

Looking at the other comments, i feel your comment should be upvoted more. Let me try this:
One out of every four species. Very different
- Idk, maybe say it louder?

Damm have i been secretly a beetle this whole time?

Shut up, Ringo!

How many are crabs, though? Or are crabs beetles?

1 out of every 4 crabs is a bettle

That is a beetle bit of a stretch to say if you ask me.

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.

Isn't there a similar ratio for Wasps?

Wasps don’t have friends