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What (who) is dung beetle - definition
![Caution sign showing the importance of dung beetles in [[South Africa]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Caution Dung Beetles, South Africa.jpg?width=200 "Caution sign showing the importance of dung beetles in [[South Africa]]")
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![A scarab statue at the [[Karnak]] temple complex](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Karnak temple scarab beetle A.jpg?width=200 "A scarab statue at the [[Karnak]] temple complex")
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Wikipedia
Dung beetles are beetles that feed on feces. Some species of dung beetles can bury dung 250 times their own mass in one night.
Many dung beetles, known as rollers, roll dung into round balls, which are used as a food source or breeding chambers. Others, known as tunnelers, bury the dung wherever they find it. A third group, the dwellers, neither roll nor burrow: they simply live in dung. They are often attracted by the feces collected by burrowing owls. There are dung beetle species of various colors and sizes, and some functional traits such as body mass (or biomass) and leg length can have high levels of variability.
All the species belong to the superfamily Scarabaeoidea, most of them to the subfamilies Scarabaeinae and Aphodiinae of the family Scarabaeidae (scarab beetles). As most species of Scarabaeinae feed exclusively on feces, that subfamily is often dubbed true dung beetles. There are dung-feeding beetles which belong to other families, such as the Geotrupidae (the earth-boring dung beetle). The Scarabaeinae alone comprises more than 5,000 species.
The nocturnal African dung beetle Scarabaeus satyrus is one of the few known invertebrate animals that navigate and orient themselves using the Milky Way.
