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beetle

Description:

While I am assuming this is a type of dung beetle, it was always copping up away from dung: at the lodges in most locales, in the town of Victoria falls

Habitat:

Bongani lodge mthethomusha reserve

Notes:

About 2 inches long, give or take

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4 Comments

KarenSaxton
KarenSaxton 10 years ago

Ashley, I have several different types of dung beetle spottings! More will be coming up soon!

AshleyT
AshleyT 10 years ago

Dang it, I have a dung beetle spotting I'll eventually get to, but you just made me realize "dung beetle" isn't a proper identification. I didn't know there were so many! And you got great pictures to help in identification and I didn't haha

KarenSaxton
KarenSaxton 10 years ago

Now, which of the 100's of species is it? LOL

LuckyLogan
LuckyLogan 10 years ago

I agree, it looks like a dung beetle

KarenSaxton
Spotted by
KarenSaxton

Mbombela Local Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa

Spotted on Dec 19, 2013
Submitted on Jan 16, 2014

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