THE BEGINNING AND THE END - GREEN DUNG BEETLE - Garreta nitens

THE BEGINNING AND THE END - GREEN DUNG BEETLE - Garreta nitens

LOCATION CAPTURED: GROENLAND GAME LODGE, Tolwe, Limpopo Province, South Africa.
Green Dung Beetle:

Medium sized: Body length 13-18mm, metallic green or copper, finely sculptured. Pronotum stronly domed. Elytra with fine grooves, outer margins with identation.
Biology:
Active by day. Cuts dung from a fresh dung pad and moulds it into a ball, which it rolls away and burries at same distance. Dung ball is then remodelled by the female into a brood ball into which an egg is laid.
When mature, the larva pupates within the remains of the brood ball.
Habitat: Savanna and bushveld.
Related Species:
Several similar species with different metalic colours.

CAPTURE: THE “BROOD BALL” OF A GREEN DUNG BEETLE.

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