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Dung Beetle
Helictoporis quadripunctatus
-18.9149, 47.5316
Field Notes
Description:
Spiny legs. It has what looks like one large compound eye. Winged and makes a lot of noise when it flies.
Habitat:
Lives in forested areas.
Notes:
This Beetle was hunkered down on the red madagascar dirt road my wife and I were walking on. It looked dead, so I picked it up with a piece of bark and carried for about 5 minutes when it started moving. I placed it inside a plastic soda cracker wrapper lying nearby and transported it back to be photographed on a banana flower petal and it noisily flew off after collecting itself. It does have a sleeper mode it goes into and that's why it looked dead and was dust covered from a recent rain.
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