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Dungbeetle balls

Photo by JessicaSA
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Field Notes

Description:

Large round balls (a little larger than baseball or cricket balls) made of dung with a layer of earth/sand covering them.

Habitat:

Found in a sandy patch in the bushveld.

Notes:

These balls had not been given the chance to incubate the dungbeetle larvae, as a larger animal (most likely a honey badger) had dug them up from the earth and broken them open to get to the larvae inside.

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (1)
Scott Frazier
Moved to the Arthropods category :-) Or if you want to use this as a sign for a honey badger, choose mammals.

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PublishedMay 26, 2014

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