For dung beetles forming a ball to provision their ... brown and orange to shiny coppery shades. Some can be metallic blue, green and red, while only a few have coloured spots or markings.

The Trustees of NHM, London The metallic effect that some beetles ... and setting of the sun by attributing it to a scarab beetle, or dung beetle, rolling away the sun, as they had seen the ...

Based on the ratio of body weight to strength, the dung beetle is not only the strongest insect but the strongest animal in the world, pound-for-pound. It can pull over 1,000 times its body weight.