Humpback dung beetle
Deltochilum gibbosum
The humpback dung beetle is a beetle from the southeastern United States. It belongs to the dung beetles, the clean-up crew of nature. Like all beetles, it has six legs and hard covers over its wings.
Lives in
The southeastern United States
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot sting. Wash your hands if you touch one.
What does it eat?
Like other dung beetles, it feeds on animal droppings.
How fast is it?
A garden snail about 0.05 km/h (0.03 mph)
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Humpback dung beetle about 0.5 km/h (0.31 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Dung beetles help nature by clearing away animal droppings.
2
Scientists once thought a beetle from Panama was a kind of humpback dung beetle. Now they count it as a separate species.
3
Another beetle that was once called a variety of it is now its own species too.
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Most asked questions about Humpback dung beetle
?Where does the humpback dung beetle live?
In the southeastern United States.
?What does the humpback dung beetle eat?
Like other dung beetles, it lives on animal droppings.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Deltochilum gibbosum
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Scarabaeidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Scarabaeidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Deltochilum gibbosum (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by xpda. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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