The Official Dung Beetle Appreciation Thread

[Nightjar]

Those wonderful and sacred and industrious little poo-bugs are so cute that, despite being inveterate stinky turd-merchants, they've managed to become tolerated, loved and even worshipped the world over.

Sir Dave Attenborough's on on BBC2 talking about them right this second.

Anyway, here's where you can share your fond recollections and experiences of our fecally-focussed armoured arthropod cousins.

[The Call of the Wendigo]

That one looks like it's eating a Scotch egg.

[The Call of the Wendigo]

But what do they do with the dung, once they have it?

[Nightjar]

I believe that they dispose of it in an environmentally responsible and sanitary manner.

[Nightjar]

They build tiny flushing toilets in the desert that use sand instead of water.

[Nightjar]

They definitely don't eat it.

[Nightjar]

[Fangirl Three]

Phase 1 - collect dung
Phase 2 - ?
Phase 3 - profit

[Nightjar]

Phase 1 - collect dung
Phase 2 - definitely don't eat it
Phase 3 - profit

[Nightjar]

[The Call of the Wendigo]

There are not actually dung beetles but they are in that general biological area...

https://twitter.com/gunsnrosesgirl3/status/1544356394643738633

[Nightjar]

I've just made myself laugh by what I myself have posted above.

[Nightjar]

I am not ashamed.

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