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Uncommon card · Nature
Flour beetle, an Uncommon card
Flour beetles are members of several darkling beetle genera including Tribolium and Tenebrio.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 58
- DEF
- 37
- Power
- 95
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 27,000
Power 95 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 35 % of WikiCards cards.
Flour beetle quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Flour beetle card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
They are pests of ______ silos and are widely used as laboratory animals, as they are easy to keep.
Answer
cereal. They are pests of cereal silos and are widely used as laboratory animals, as they are easy to keep. From the Flour beetle article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Java Sea. Java Sea 41,000 · Flour beetle 27,000 · Australopithecus garhi 21,000 · Eotriceratops 16,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- They are pests of cereal silos and are widely used as laboratory animals, as they are easy to keep.
- The flour beetles consume wheat and other grains, are adapted to survive in very dry environments, and can withstand even higher amounts of radiation than cockroaches.
- Red flour beetles infest multiple different types of products such as grains, cereals, spices, seeds, and even cake mixes.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Flour beetle article was read about 27,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 58 and blocks with 37: each hit it takes is cut by 15 %.
How to get Flour beetle
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Flour beetle (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Eric Day, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
