What is a dung beetle?

Many people don't know much about dung beetles. What is a dung beetle? What are the physical features? What are the habits of life? Now let's introduce dung beetles to you.

What is a dung beetle?

Dung beetle is also called dung beetle, and many people call it dung beetle (g è) beetle, push pill and so on. It belongs to the subfamily Coleoptera, Coleoptera. There are about 2300 species of dung beetles in the world, distributed on any continent outside Antarctica. Dung beetles can use moonlight polarization to locate to help feed. It has a certain phototaxis. Insects that drill into cow dung can roll the manure into a ball and push it forward. Mainly feed on animal droppings, there is the title of "natural scavenger", also known as "Moduoji".

The shape characteristics of dung beetles

The figure is slightly flat oval, with a length of 5mm and 30mm. The body color is mostly glossy black, but also brown. The head is flat, the forelegs are strong, and the male has horns. It is a completely abnormal insect. The body surface is dark, and some have metallic luster. There is a long and curved horn on the top of the male's head. Dung beetles can make use of moonlight polarization to locate to help feed and have certain phototaxis. Its insects are deep-eyed and high-nosed, shaped like Qiang Hu, carrying black armour and shaped like warriors, so they are known as dung beetles and generals.

Life habits of dung beetles:

Dung beetle food: dung beetle (Dung Beetle): spoon-headed insect that turns dung into a ball. They lay their eggs on this spherical feces and bury them. This allows the larvae to have a ready food supply when they hatch. Most dung beetles feed on animal droppings and are known as "natural scavengers". It often makes balls of feces, rolls them to a reliable place to hide, and then slowly eats them. A dung beetle can roll a dung ball much larger than its body. Dung beetles push dung balls to reproduce. Despite the smelly faeces, dung beetle's baby is an essential food to sustain life. The baby hasn't been born yet. the mother prepared the most abundant food for them. A pile of elephant droppings can feed 7000 shellfish. How can so many shellfish gather on a pile of food and live in peace? They have their own way of distributing food: each shit shell rolls its own feces into a ball, rolls the "rations" back into the dug cave, and then lays eggs on the balls for the baby to enjoy a few days later. Therefore, where there is a dung beetle, the feces will be cleaned up, and the inconspicuous dung beetle is actually a "cleaner" in nature. I should say thank you to dung beetle. The female dung beetle during the breeding period will make a pear-shaped dung ball and lay eggs in it. The hatched larvae feed on ready-made dung balls and do not break out of the ground until they develop into adults. Herbivorous dung beetles feed on sweet tree sap. After male and female mating, the female lays eggs in rotten leaf soil. After about 10 days, the larvae break the eggs and feed on rotten leaf soil or animal feces. The larvae continue to grow, and the following July turns into pupae. About 20 days later, it becomes an adult. Dung beetles belong to Insecta, Coleoptera, black or dark brown, with hard exoskeleton, developed compound eyes, chewable mouthparts, Gill-shaped antennae, 3 pairs of feet, 2 pairs of wings, keratinized forewings and completely abnormal development. How dung beetles eat: on the African prairie, thousands of dung beetles emerge from the ground on the fourth night after the rainy season. After the heavy rain, the elephants greedily enjoyed the new plants, but the digestive system could not bear the sudden increase in load, and a lot of the food swallowed was returned to the ground. The giant beetle is the largest of the dung beetles, and its food source mainly depends on the feces of elephants. Every day, elephants leave hundreds of tons of elephant dung on the plain, followed by an army of dung beetles. Part of the elephant dung is buried in the ground, and the dung beetle's work makes the land fat and alive. This is a cyclic process in which the giant roach plays an important role.