Nick Upton / Portrait of Small garden bumblebee (Bombus hortorum) sun-basking on leaves. Wiltshire garden, UK, June.

Kim Taylor / Pair of dung beetles (unidentified) rolling a ball of buffalo dung. East Africa.

Duncan Usher / Horned Dung Beetle (Copris lunaris) portrait, Europe

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

Dietmar Nill / Dung/Scarab beetle rolling dung {Scarabaeus laticollis} Sardinia

Richard Du Toit / Dung beetle road crossing warning sign. Itala Game Reserve, South Africa

Jose B. Ruiz / Dung beetle with ball of dung, Spain - beetle lays egg in ball

Jose B. Ruiz / Dung beetle rolling ball of dung, Spain - lays egg in ball

Jose B. Ruiz / Dung beetle rolling ball of dung, Spain - lays egg in ball

Andrew Parkinson / Sign protecting Flightless dung beetle {Circellium bacchus} Addo_Elephant park, South Africa

Andrew Parkinson / Flightless dung beetle {Circellium bacchus} female rolling buffalo dung ball to lay egg in, South Africa Addo elephant park endangered

PREMAPHOTOS / Dungroller beetles (Gymnopleurus aenescens) on faeces. South Africa

Barry Mansell / Scarab beetles feeding on animal dung {Canthon pilularius}

PREMAPHOTOS / Scarab beetle rolling dung ball {Helictopleurus quadripunctatus} Madagascar.

PREMAPHOTOS / Scarab beetle (Helictopleurus quadripunctatus) burying sifaka dung ball, Madagascar.

PREMAPHOTOS / Scarab beetle (Scarabaeus aeratus) attempts to steal dung ball from another, Kenya

PREMAPHOTOS / Dung beetle (Scarabeaus aeratus) rolling buffalo dung ball, Kenya.

Pete Oxford / Dung beetle rolling dung ball {Scarabaeus sp} Okavango delta, Botswana

Mike Wilkes / Dung beetles moving ball of dung. Masai Mara NP, Kenya, East 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

Tom Vezo / Rhinoceros Beetle (Dynastinae) amid tree leaves, Tortuguero National Park, Costa Rica

Jan Vermeer / Stag Beetle (Lucanus cervus) two males fighting, Europe

Jan Vermeer / Stag Beetle (Lucanus cervus) male on mossy branch, Europe

Pete Oxford / Precious Metal Scarab (Plusiotus sp) on leaf, Manu cloud forest, Peru

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Golden Scarab Beetle (Plusiotis resplendens) portrait on leaf, Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve, Costa Rica

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Golden Scarab Beetle (Plusiotis resplendens) portrait on leaf, Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve, Costa Rica

Jan Vermeer / Stag Beetle (Lucanus cervus) silhouette of male stag beetle on leaf, Europe

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Dung Beetle (Scarabaeidae) pair rolling ball of monkey dung, rainforest, Manu National Park, Peru

Claus Meyer / Rhinoceros Beetle (Megasoma actaeon) male held in human hand, Amazon ecosystem, Brazil

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

Mark Moffett / Golden Scarab Beetle (Plusiotis resplendens) on fir needles, Pena Blanca Lake, Arizona

Mark Moffett / Glorious Scarab (Chrysina gloriosa) on Fir needles, Pena Blanca Lake, Arizona

Mitsuhiko Imamori / Rhinoceros Beetle (Xylotrupes gideon) pair fighting, Asia

Mitsuhiko Imamori / Rhinoceros Beetle (Xylotrupes gideon) pair fighting, Asia

Mitsuhiko Imamori / Earth-boring Dung Beetle (Aegus acuminatus) portrait, Asia

Mark Moffett / Scarab Beetle pair fighting, Gunung Mulu National Park, Sarawak, Borneo

Mark Moffett / Scarab Beetle portrait in rainforest near Iquitos, Peru

Mark Moffett / Dung Beetle (Scarabaeidae), Pipeline Road, Panama

Mark Moffett / Fungus Weevil (Heterosternus oberthuri) pair, Fortuna National Park, Panama

Mark Moffett / Scarab Beetle (Phalangogonia sperata) pair on Cecropia sp plant, El Yano Carti Road, Panama

Mark Moffett / Dung Beetle (Rutela sp) on leaf, El Yano Carti Road, Panama

Mark Moffett / Flower Beetle (Ischiopsopha sp) portrait, Panama

Mark Moffett / Golden Scarab Beetle (Plusiotis resplendens) in fir tree, Pena Blanca Lake, Arizona

Mark Moffett / Dung Beetle (Scarabaeidae) on sand, Zabul, Iran

Mark Moffett / Dung Beetle (Sarabaeidae) hled by researcher, Zabul, Iran

Mark Moffett / Scarab Beetle (Phalangogonia sperata) feeding on leaf, El Yano Carti Road, Panama

Mark Moffett / Scarab Beetle (Phalangogonia sperata) group in human hands, El Yano Carti Road, Panama

Pete Oxford / Dung Beetle (Scarabaeidae) in defensive posture, Yasuni National Park, Amazon, Ecuador

Martin Willis / Mahogany Glider (Petaurus gracilis) eating Christmas Beetle (Anoplognathus sp), Cardwell, Queensland, Australia

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

Christian Ziegler / Left to right, from top: Blue Helicopter Damselfly (Megaloprepus coerulatus), Mydas Fly (Mydidae), Saw-nosed Planthopper (Cathedra serrata), Metalmark (Lymnas pixe), Grasshopper (Proscopia panamensis)...

Kim Taylor / Green Scarab (Kheper species) pair on ball of buffalo dung, Kenya, Africa

Kim Taylor / Green scarab beetle (Kheper sp) rolling ball of buffalo dung, Kenya, Africa

Silvia Reiche / Common Cockchafer (Melolontha melolontha) lying on its back, Saint-Jory-las-Bloux, Dordogne, France

Premaphotos / Hornet robber fly (Asilus crabroniformis) mating pair, the female is feeding on a Dung beetle while they are perched on horse dung, the food of the Robber fly larva, UK

Premaphotos / Bumble-dor beetles (Geotrupes stercorarius) cutting up and burying dung, UK

Premaphotos / Dung-rolling scarab beetle (Gymnopleurus aenescens) pair rolling their ball of buffalo dung in savannah grassland, South Africa

Premaphotos / Dung-roller beetle (Onthophagus / Scarabaeus taurus) rolling a ball of dung, Malta

Premaphotos / Dung-roller beetle (Canthon sp) rolling an (Atta bisphaerica) Leafcutter ant queen as if she were a dung ball, in campo cerrado, Brazil

Premaphotos / Dung beetles (Megathopa villosa) making a ball of Coati dung in rainforest, notes seeds in the dung, Argentina

Nature Production / Dung beetle {Aphodius rectus} in cow dung, Japan

Duncan Mcewan / Dor beetle larvae {Geotrupes stercorarius}

Jan Vermeer / Common Cockchafer (Melolontha melolontha) beetle, underside, Europe

Jan Vermeer / Common Cockchafer (Melolontha melolontha) beetle on branch, Europe

Mark Moffett / Flower Beetle (Ischiopsopha sp) portrait, Panama

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