Michael & Patricia Fogden / Scarab Beetle on a Guzmania flower, Damaraland, Namibia

Mitsuhiko Imamori / Dung Beetle (Scarabaeidae) rolling dung ball, Kenya

Mitsuhiko Imamori / Dung Beetle (Scarabaeidae) rolling dung ball, Kenya

Mark Moffett / African Scarab Beetle (Circellium bacchus) rolling dung ball, Addo National Park, South Africa

Mark Moffett / African Scarab Beetle (Circellium bacchus) rolls animal dung into balls which are buried and fed upon by its larvae, South Africa

Vincent Grafhorst / Dung Beetle (Kheper aegyptiorum) on a heap of dung, Khama Rhino Sanctuary, Serowe, Botswana

Vincent Grafhorst / Dung Beetle (Kheper aegyptiorum) group on heap of dung, Khama Rhino Sanctuary, Serowe, Botswana

Vincent Grafhorst / Dung Beetle (Kheper aegyptiorum) rolling a dung ball, Gaborone Game Reserve, Botswana

Suzi Eszterhas / Bat-eared Fox (Otocyon megalotis) smelling dung beetle ball, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania

Piotr Naskrecki / Dung Beetle (Scarabaeidae), Namibia

Mitsuaki Iwago / Dung Beetle (Scarabaeus pius) group processing dung, Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

Piotr Naskrecki / Bronze Dung Beetle (Onitis alexis) on a pile of dried dung, Botswana

Piotr Naskrecki / Dung Beetle (Scarabaeidae) amid grasses, Botswana

Piotr Naskrecki / Dung Beetle (Scarabaeidae) infested with Phoretic Mites, Botswana

Piotr Naskrecki / Dung Beetle (Scarabaeidae) on grasses, Botswana

Richard Du Toit / Dung Beetle (Scarabaeidae) road sign cautioning drivers that Dung Beetles have the right of way, Itala Game Reserve, South Africa

Gerry Ellis / Dung Beetle (Scarabaeidae) rolling dung ball, Matetsi safari area, Zimbabwe

Mitsuhiko Imamori / Dung Beetle (Scarabaeidae) rolling dung ball, Kenya

Mark Moffett / Dung Beetle (Scarabaeidae) dung ball with parasitzed larva inside, Timbavati Reserve, South Africa

Mark Moffett / Dung Beetle (Scarabaeidae) pair fighting over dung ball one beetle has buried, Kruger National Park, South Africa

Mark Moffett / Dung Beetle (Scarabaeidae) an endangered variety gathering dung, South Africa

Mark Moffett / Flamboyant Flower Beetle (Eudicella gralli) pair clinging to a twig, Uganda

Mitsuhiko Imamori / Dung Beetle (Scarabaeidae) rolling dung ball, Kenya

Mitsuhiko Imamori / Dung Beetle (Scarabaeidae) pair rolling dung ball, Kenya

Mitsuhiko Imamori / Dung Beetle (Scarabaeidae) rolling dung ball, Kenya

Gerry Ellis / Dung Beetle (Scarabaeidae) rolling dung ball, Maputaland Coastal Forest Reserve, South Africa

Konrad Wothe / Dung Beetle (Scarabaeus pius) rolling a dung ball, Africa

Konrad Wothe / Dung Beetle (Scarabaeidae) pair on dung, Mahale Mountains National Park, Tanzania

Rod Williams / African Sun Beetle (Pachnoda nactigali) on leaf. Occurs Africa, May 2OO8. Captive.

Mitsuhiko Imamori / Obelisk with Scarab Beetle or Dung Beetle design, Egypt