Dung+Beetle


 * Common name**: Dung Beetle
 * Scientific name**: Phanaeus vindex
 * Habitat**: The Dung Beetle lives in places like deserts, farmlands, forests, and grasslands.
 * Range**: They live on every continent except Antarctica.
 * Physical Characteristics**: The colors of dung beetles vary from black to brown, to purplish yellow to metallic.
 * Diet**: They feed on mushrooms, decaying leaves, fruits, and dung.
 * Behavior and Adaptations**:They sometimes bury the dung and live in it.
 * Reproduction**: The male gives the female some dung, if accepted they are mates, if not the female drives out the male. The female stays with the ball and her "grub"for 2 months, cleaning it and removing fungi and bacteria.
 * Relationship to People**: When the dung beetle buries the dung it fertilizes the ground.
 * Status**:The Dung Beetle is common.
 * History**: It is believed that the Dung Beetle's ancestors was the Scarab from the Ancient Egypt.
 * Crazy facts**: One dung beetle can bury dung 250 times its own weight in a night.

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