Do you know what kinds of dung beetles there are? Attached picture appreciation

Dung beetles are also called dung beetles. Do you know what kinds of dung beetles there are? There are more than 20,000 species of dung beetles in the world, distributed on any continent outside Antarctica. The most famous dung beetle, which lives in Egypt, is 1 inch 2.5 centimeters long. The largest dung beetle in the world is a giant dung beetle 10 centimeters long. Most dung beetles feed on animal droppings and are known as "natural scavengers".

First, the species of dung beetle

1. Scarabs

Scarabs live in grasslands, mountains, deserts and jungles, and they are industrious wherever there is animal droppings. Scarabs are the most magical in the vast world of beetles-the body is covered with armor shining bronze or weak emerald green or dark blue. In ancient Egypt, the beetle was used as a totem, and when the Pharaoh died, his heart was cut out and replaced with a stone covered with scarabs.

2. Buzzing dung beetles like cows

Bovine buzzing dung beetle is a kind of insect which is only found in Beijing. It belongs to the genus Scarabidae.

3. Smelly dung beetle

The stinky dung beetle is black, with horns on the top of the male's head, the forechest dorsal plate is strongly depressed backward and downward, and forms a sharp angle at the edge of the depression. The female's head and forechest dorsal plate are normal, with a longitudinal ridge on the sheath wing and phototaxis, with a body length of 20 mm and 30 mm. Distributed in Beijing, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Shanxi, Jiangsu and Korea, Japan, Mongolia and other places.

4. Dung beetles

The buzz dung beetle is an insect belonging to the genus Carabidae, with a length of 4.6 mm and a width of 2.7 mm and 3.6 mm. The body is small, short and oval, the back and abdomen is quite long and thick, the body is deep brown to black, all are densely covered with engraved hair, the coat color is unveiled, and the luster is dark.

5. Shennongjie dung beetle

Shennongjie dung beetle is an insect of the genus Mantis of the family Scarabidae. It is 3 cm long, dark and forked with forked horns.

Second, what does dung beetle eat?

Dung beetles mainly eat poop. Stool is the waste residue produced by animals after digesting food, all smelly, very bad smell, we all feel very dirty. But there are still a lot of nutrients in the feces, because the intestines and stomachs of animals cannot absorb all the nutrients in the food, so the residual nutrients will be excreted out of the body along with the residue, which is why feces can be used as fertilizers to make plants grow well, and plants can absorb nutrients from feces through the soil. Then the dung beetle feeds on the nutrients in the feces and can absorb the nutrients in the feces.

In fact, what we collectively call dung beetles are dung-eating beetles. Strictly speaking, they include dung beetles and dung beetles. Although we both call them dung beetles, there are differences. Dung beetles belong to the dung beetle family, while dung beetles belong to the dung-eating subfamily of the beetle family. In a word, although they have similar eating habits, they are not the same beetles and can only be considered relatives.