There are dung feeding beetles which belong to other families, such as the Geotrupidae (the earth boring dung beetle ).

At first, she also called him to her with words which she presumably thought were friendly, like Come here for a bit, old dung beetle! or Hey, look at the old dung beetle!

because I've turned into a beetle.

Scathophaga stercoraria, commonly known as the yellow dung fly or the golden dung fly, is one of the most familiar and abundant flies in many parts of the northern hemisphere.

It actually is a Japanese beetle.

When the bug was in the gut, he'd send back by return post some dung beetles.

Dung heap.

Unless you're prepared to get dung under your fingernails and root through the dung itself, you'll never see 90 percent of the dung beetle species, because they go directly into the dung, straight down below it, and then they shuttle back and forth between the dung at the soil surface and a nest they make underground.

They remove dung, they pollinate our crops.

I didn't pick cow manure at random.

They were already drowning in manure.

Dung heap, or I'll... blow you down to hell, and you can...

It's a ladybug.

(Laughter)

This is a dung beetle. Watch what he's doing.

And his neighbor steals one of his dung pellets.

So I removed, and the hemorragy started again, like a waterfall.

On one side, a bike, on the other, a blue, dirty beetle.

Ten percent of the species actually make a ball, and this ball they roll away from the dung source, usually bury it at a remote place away from the dung source, and they have a very particular behavior by which they are able to roll their balls.

The one on the left is the Namibian beetle pulling water out of fog.

Within South Africa, we've got about 800 species of dung beetles, in Africa we've got 2,000 species of dung beetles, and in the world we have about 6,000 species of dung beetles.

They are grown completely in a ball of dung.

He told to get that shit out of there, otherwise, Nicolau would die.

So, according to dung beetles, dung is pretty good.

And most dung beetles actually wrap it into a package of some sort.

We don't know yet what dung beetles use.

And we also cooled down the dung ball, so we were able to put the ball in the fridge, gave them a nice cool dung ball, and they climbed onto that ball far less often than when they had a hot ball.

Dung beetles are beetles that feed partly or exclusively on dungs or feces.

So let's say someone pokes you with this nail dipped in cow manure.

So on the wayside we found these dung cakes, which are used as a fuel.

So it's got all sorts of nasty stuff on it, pathogens on it, probably has a bunch of bacteria sitting in the cow manure.

It's in slow motion. but it's walking forwards, and it's actually taking a pellet of dry dung with it.

Now, this lady, on the wall of the dung cake heap, has made a painting.

He laughed and came back to the log and began to talk about the flower seeds again.

Now large herds dung and urinate all over their own food, and they have to keep moving.

On the outward path, he's always on the lookout for a new blob of dung.

There are beetles that roll little balls of dung great distances across the desert floor to feed to their hatchlings.

This is poo, and what I want to do today is share my passion for poo with you, which might be quite difficult, but I think what you might find more fascinating is the way these small animals deal with poo.

And basically it's all evolved to handle its food source, which is dung.

Half of the world s population uses solid fuel, such as wood, charcoal, or dung, for cooking.

So what I want to share with you now are some of the experiments that myself and my colleagues have used to investigate how dung beetles deal with these problems.

The distribution of Scathophaga stercoraria is likely influenced by human agriculture, especially in Northern Europe and North America.

This reminded the ancient Egyptians of their god Khepri, who renews the ball of the sun every morning, which is how that dung rolling scarab became that sacred scarab on the breastplate of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun.

So this dung pat was actually well, it was a dung pat 15 minutes before this photograph was taken, and we think it's the intense competition that makes the beetles so well adapted to rolling balls of dung.

The trip here is repeated back and forth between a provisioning site and a nest site.