Cought this Dung beetle in South Africa at a fuel station

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Dung beetles are beetles that feed partly or exclusively on dung. A dung beetle can bury dung 250 times heavier than itself in one night.

Many dung beetles, known as rollers, roll dung into round balls, which are used as a food source or breeding chambers. Others, known as tunnelers, bury the dung wherever they find it. A third group, the dwellers, neither roll nor burrow: they simply live in manure. They are often attracted by the dung collected by burrowing owls. There are dung beetle species of different colors and sizes, and some functional traits such as body mass (or biomass) and leg length can have high levels of variability

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And yes its my hand for size and i did wash my hand afterwords XD

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Glad to hear you washed your hands!! Dung beetles are huge! You can spot them from far off when they're rolling their little balls around.