Woodland dor beetle
The woodland dor beetle is a shiny blue-black beetle that lives in forests. Turn it over and its belly gleams metallic blue. It is a dung beetle that helps the forest stay clean by burying dung and old leaves.
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Fun facts
The parents dig a tunnel about 70 to 80 centimetres deep into the soil, longer than your arm.
At the end of the tunnel they pack dung or dead plants as food for their babies.
Its wings can be blue, violet or green.
It even eats the stinkhorn, a mushroom that smells very bad.
You can find grown-up beetles from June all the way to the next spring.
Most asked questions about Woodland dor beetle
?What does a dor beetle eat?
Dung, dead animals, rotting leaves and mushrooms.
?Is the dor beetle dangerous?
No. It is harmless and helps keep the forest clean.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Anoplotrupes stercorosus
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Geotrupidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Geotrupidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Dor beetle
Where the facts come from
- Anoplotrupes stercorosus (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 Hectonichus. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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