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What is the name of the insect that roles dirt into a ball shape?

April 26, 2017Ball Dirt insect roles shape

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What is the name of the insect that roles dirt into a ball shape?

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The dung ball is buried in the ground and used as a food source for the beetle’s young which emerges a long time later. This has resonance with the entombment of a mummy and its afterlife – hence the Scarab was sacred to the ancient Egyptians.