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Dung beetle

Anoplotrupes stercorosus

Photo by Rhydowen
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Field Notes

Description:

Black beetle
ETA: thanks to member Jopy for the ID of Dung beetle
Anoplotrupes stercorosus

Habitat:

Broadleaf mainly oak woodland (Coed y Foel, a Woodland Trust wood)

Species ID Suggestions

Dung beetle

Anoplotrupes stercorosus

Comments (2)

I'm glad I helped :) you don't have to be ashamed, the same thing happened to me, we learn every day :D
Thank you Jopy. We saw many of these on our walk today and had not seen them before. I'm ashamed to admit I didn't know we had dung beetle here.

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