Editorialscarab, Amonre, The seal has the shape of a stylized dung beetle. Head with clypeus, pronotum and elytra are separated by notched lines. On each elytron a triangle has been cut adjacent to the pronotum. Legs are shown on both sides, but there are only ...
EditorialA photo provided by Chris Collingridge shows James Foster and Marie Dacke performing orientation experiments at a dark-sky site in rural Limpopo, South Africa, with a dung beetle. Humans aren’t the only species that navigate by starlight. Animals from birds to dung beetles may do it, too — and might become disoriented as our city lights drown out the heavens. (Chris Collingridge via The New York Times)
EditorialA photo provided by Chris Collingridge shows James Foster and Marie Dacke performing orientation experiments at a dark-sky site in rural Limpopo, South Africa, with a dung beetle. Humans aren’t the only species that navigate by starlight. Animals from birds to dung beetles may do it, too — and might become disoriented as our city lights drown out the heavens. (Chris Collingridge via The New York Times)
EditorialGem in the shape of a scarab (throne Isis), Jasper, drilled, cut, polished, bent, turned, jasper and gold, cut and drilled, total: Height: 1.45 cm; Width: 1.08 cm; Depth: 0.77 cm, Body jewelry, glyptic, Isis, the mother goddess, beetles, The pendant in...
Editorialscarab, Amonre, The seal has the shape of a stylized dung beetle. Head with clypeus, pronotum and elytra are separated by notched lines. On each elytron a triangle has been cut adjacent to the pronotum. Legs are shown on both sides, but there are only ...
EditorialInsects 1, dung beetle, wood wasp, wood bee and other insects, Taf. V, Heinrich Rudolf Schinz: Abbildungen aus der Naturgeschichte. Z?rich: bei Friedrich Schulthess, [1824].
EditorialCircellium, Print, The flightless dung beetle (Circellium bacchus) is a species of dung beetle endemic to a few areas of South Africa, including the Addo Elephant National Park and the Buffalo Valley Game Farm. It is the only species in the genus Circe...
EditorialCircellium, Print, The flightless dung beetle (Circellium bacchus) is a species of dung beetle endemic to a few areas of South Africa, including the Addo Elephant National Park and the Buffalo Valley Game Farm. It is the only species in the genus Circe...
EditorialAphodius, Print, Aphodius is a genus of beetles in the Scarabaeidae family. In most species both the adults and larvae are coprophagous (dung feeding) although some species have herbivorous or saprophagous larvae. Aphodius species typically dominate du...
EditorialDor beetle or earth-boring dung beetle, Geotrupes puncticollis (Scarabaeus spiniger). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from The British Miscellany, or Coloured figures of new, rare, or little known animal subjects, London, 1804.
EditorialDor beetle or earth-boring dung beetle, Geotrupes puncticollis (Scarabaeus spiniger). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from The British Miscellany, or Coloured figures of new, rare, or little known animal subjects, London, 1804.