With its shiny, black and fiery body and orange-tipped antennae, the American burying beetle is a vibrant beauty of the bug world. The insect's occupation, though, is a little less glamorous. After ...
The Egyptians saw the beetle bury the pellet, and they saw a new beetle emerge from it in due time, and they leaped straight to the not unnatural conclusion that here was a case of spontaneous ...
Burying beetles display an unusually intense form of brood care for insects, with both parents tending to their young. They ...
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Interesting Animal Facts: The Dung Beetle
They will simply not touch the excrement of other animals Two “rolling” beetles, a male and a female, will form and bury a ...
A stag beetle flying at dusk is a rare and amazing sight. At up to 7cm long, it’s our largest beetle. Its name comes from enormous jaws that look rather like a stag’s antlers. Stag beetles ...
The beetle also has an orange-red marking on the shield over its ... which together then remove hair or feathers from the carcass and bury it as a “brood ball,” coating it with oral and anal embalming ...