Dung Beetle
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| phylum | Arthropoda | Dung beetles are beetles that feed partly or exclusively on dungs or feces. They posses exceptional dung disposal capacity and one dung beetle can bury dung that is 250 times heavier than itself in one night. Many dung beetles, known as rollers, roll dung into round balls, which are used as a food source or brooding chambers. Other dung beetles, known as tunnelers, bury the dung wherever they find it. A third group, the dwellers, neither roll nor burrow: they simply live in manure. They are often attracted by the dung burrowing owls collect. All the species belong to the superfamily Scarabaeoidea; most of them to the subfamilies Scarabaeinae and Aphodiinae of the family Scarabaeidae (scarab beetles).
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| Class | Insecta | |
| order | Coleoptera | |
| superfamily | Scarabaeoidea |
