This is another one of my three activities that I am doing for the week. This is a paragraph about the three main groups of the Dung Beetles. It is really awesome that you can learn so much from just a video!
The Dung Beetles are the reason we don’t live in poo everyday. Once an animal poops, dung beetles locate the dung and take it away for themselves. But because there are so many beetles, that beetle will have to take it as fast as he can. There are three main groups of dung beetles. Rollers, Tunnelers and Dwellers. Rollers are dung beetles that sculpt a ball of dung and use their back legs to roll it away from the other competitors. Once the male has selected its mate, the two beetles will dig a hole in the ground and the female will lay its eggs in the dung.
Tunnelers dig holes under the dung and collect it from dung from underneath. Dwellers take the most efficient way by laying their eggs in the dung and when they hatch, the larvae feed on it, leaving the scraps that are completely surrounded by bacteria and fungi and wither away.
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