Our most familiar image of the dung beetle shows one of them rolling a finely shaped ball of dung to a hiding place where it ...

After mating, females lay their eggs on the poo. Some lay theirs inside a 'brood ball' made of poo bound together with saliva. Dung beetle larvae have sharp mouthparts. They use these to chomp through ...

It was a common article of funeral equipment. The scarab beetle lays its eggs in a dung ball and so it appeared that new life sprang from this dead matter. Ancient Egyptians also believed that a ...