Nice Collectible & Educational Dung Beetle Ball Specimen In Display Case

Collector notes

A dung beetle ball is a round sphere of animal feces that a dung beetle shapes, rolls, and buries to use as food or as a safe underground nursery for its eggs. Interestingly, the ancient Egyptians’ sacred scarabs were dung beetles. Just as the sun god, Ra, was believed to roll the sun across the sky each day and bury it each night, so too, the sacred scarab rolled its dung ball all day and buried it at night.