dung beetle, beetles

Dung beetles live in many different habitats, including desert, farmland, forest, and grasslands. They do not like extremely cold or dry weather. They occur on all continents except Antarctica.

Dung beetles eat dung excreted by herbivores and omnivores, and prefer that produced by the former. Many of them also feed on mushrooms and decaying leaves and fruits. They do not need to eat or drink anything else because the dung provides all the necessary nutrients. The larvae feeds on the undigested plant fiber in the dung, while the adults do not eat solid food at all. Instead they use their mouthparts to squeeze and suck the juice from the manure, a liquid full of micro-organisms and other nutrients (as well as the body fluids from some unlucky animals such as dung-feeding maggots that sometimes get trapped between their mandibles).

Direction Same location as last photo
Location Mtae, Ushoto, East Africa, Tanzania, Africa
Info F 5.6 1/500 ISO 250 with Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi
Itinerary . feeling: neutral, slighly upbeat
Country Tanzania State East Africa
City Mtae, Ushoto Continent Africa
Day Usambara Activity walk
Feeling neutral Date 2007:10:18 10:45:18
Make Canon Model Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi
Width 3888 Height 2592
Flash Off, Did not fire Focal 85.0 mm
Exposure 1/500 F Number 5.6
ISO 250 White Bal. Auto
Metering Multi-segment Program Not Defined
Compensation 0 Hyperfocal 69.49 m
Latitude -4.80466666666667 Longitude 38.2801666666667
Altitude 1396.896851 m File Size 4.9 MB
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