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 is in the form of a schematically represented dung beetle. Head, pronotum and elytra are separated by grooves. Both sides show a very schematic approach to legs, the legs are not elaborated further. The god name Amon-Re can be ...
Editorialscarab, Amon, standing, Rhino, Anubis, The seal has the shape of a dung beetle that has been faithfully reproduced. On the back, the separation between the clypeus, the head, the eyes, the pronotum and the elytra is indicated by superficially indented ...
Editorialscarab, Ptah, standing, wasscepter, djedzuil, vogel, The seal has the shape of a very stylized dung beetle. Two notches on the sides divide the top of this seal in head and body, but no further detail is missing. Legs are shown on both sides. The front...
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 ...
Editorialscarab, Amonre, The object has the form of a roughly executed and schematically represented dung beetle. Clypeus, head, pronotum and elytra are separated by notched lines. A groove running around the object is cut on both sides. The goddess name Amon-R...
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.
EditorialDung beetle, Megasoma elephas. Illustration drawn and engraved by Frederick Nodder. Handcolored copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's "The Naturalist's Miscellany," London, 1798. Most of the 1,064 illustrations of animals, birds...