Night-flying dung beetle

It can tell that night has come even when it is buried 4 centimetres down in the soil.

On its night flights it often gets lost and flies to the lights of houses.

Tiny mites ride on its body under its hard wing cases. They eat the mould in the dung, which keeps the beetle's food from going bad.

Its head is shaped like a shovel, and it uses it to dig.

Each of its wing cases has ten long ridges.