Beetle dream meaning is explained below using 13 different sources. Each interpretation is shown with its source.

Interpretation 1 — Dream Explanations - Anonymous

Dreams of a beetle symbolize disorder and a lack of cleanliness in your life, or that you are becoming aware of your resilient survival instincts. Alternatively, native people in the Amazon consider beetles to be sacred travelers from other dimensions that venture between our world and the afterlife to remind you that life is eternal. Dreams of a scarab represent that you are protected from harm, and that you are aligned with the sacred and the mystical. Consider the feeling tone.

See Goddess Persephone.

Source: Strangest Dream Explanations • Author: Dream Explanations - Anonymous

Interpretation 2 — Garuda

Symbol: The scarab is a symbol of resurrection.

Vision: Looking at a beetle: a warning to be more humble if you want people to like you. Watching many beedes: losses are inevitable. Catching a beetle: a problem will be solved and you will make new friends. Killing a beetle: you need to come to terms with a mistake.

Depth Psychology: A beetle represents the “ups and downs” of life, your success and failures. Examine the rest of the dream images.

Source: Dreamers Dictionary • Author: Garuda

Interpretation 3 — Ibn Seerin

In a dream, a beetle represents a perfidious and a rich enemy, a dull person who travels extensively transporting money between the lands, an odious, dirty and abominable person, or an evil servant.

A female beetle in a dream means the death of a woman in childbed. or it could represent a stubborn and a relentless woman.

If one sees a beetle turning into a scorpion in a dream, it represents an enemy whose real intention is not known.

Source: Islamic Dream Interpretation • Author: Ibn Seerin

Interpretation 4 — Pamela Ball

1- Considered by many to be dirty, in a dream the beetle carries the same symbolism as all insects that is, something which is unclean or not properly attended to.

2- The industriousness of the beetle is often taken to represent hard work which needs to be done.

3- By its connection with the scarab beetle, it represents protection from evil.

The dreamer should look at what, or who, he feels needs to be protected.

Source: Ten Thousand Dream Dictionary • Author: Pamela Ball

Interpretation 5 — Nancy Wagaman

Heartiness, durability, or longevity.

Steady progress.

Activity or damage of which you’re not aware.

Wisdom.

Royalty, or a sense of self-value.

Dreaming of this insect can represent too much or not enough of one of those qualities, or someone or something you associate with the quality.

Consider also the insect’s actions, context, and your feelings about it.

See Insect, Firefly

Source: The Curious Dreamer’s Dream Dictionary • Author: Nancy Wagaman

Interpretation 6 — Ariadne Green

As a bug that can be destructive to plants, the beede might signify something eating up all that you have worked hard to cultivate. In this way, it may represent your bills. In that the beetle burrows in the ground, it may represent something destructive in the subconscious. As the scarab, the beetle may signify immortality.
Source: Ariadne's Book of Dream • Author: Ariadne Green

Interpretation 7 — Martha Clarke

To see beetles in your oneiric thoughts is a good sign: promises happiness and good luck at all levels. Thus, it is a good time to start businesses and to strengthen relationships. To kill one of these insects alerts of a misfortune that could fall on you.
Source: The Big Dictionary of Dreams • Author: Martha Clarke

Interpretation 8 — Versatile - Anonymous

The scarab beetle was an ancient egyptian solar symbol – it is said to have rolled the sun across the sky.

A beetle thus represents protection from evil. You should look at what, or who, you feels needs to be protected.

Source: Dream Meanings of Versatile • Author: Versatile - Anonymous

Interpretation 9 — Versatile - Anonymous

Material aspects: Considered by many to be dirty, in a dream the beetle carries the same symbolism as all insects – that is, something which is unclean if not given the correct attention.
Source: Dream Meanings of Versatile • Author: Versatile - Anonymous

Interpretation 10 — Versatile - Anonymous

Psychological / emotional perspective: The industriousness of the beetle is often taken to represent hard work, efficient planning and use of resources which needs to be undertaken.
Source: Dream Meanings of Versatile • Author: Versatile - Anonymous

Interpretation 11 — myjellybean

To see a beetle in your dream, indicates that some destructive influences may be at work in your waking life. You may also feel that your values and beliefs are being compromised. Also see “Scarab”
Source: My Dream Interpretation • Author: myjellybean

Interpretation 12 — Joan Seaman - Tom Philbin

1. Financial success.

2. Eternal life.

3. A slow-forming, emerg­ing problem, previously unnoticed.

4. Good fortune (to kill beetles or see them dead).

Source: New American Dream Dictionary • Author: Joan Seaman - Tom Philbin

Interpretation 13 — Betty Bethards

Scarab beetle represents eternal life, spiritual awakening, as used in ancient Egypt and other cultures.
Source: The Dream Books Symbols • Author: Betty Bethards