When the bug was in the gut, he'd send back by return post some dung beetles.

Dung beetles are beetles that feed partly or exclusively on dungs or feces.

With him, it's beetles.

These goliath beetles are wired in their wings.

Within South Africa, we've got about 800 species of dung beetles, in Africa we've got 2,000 species of dung beetles, and in the world we have about 6,000 species of dung beetles.

Fireflies are not flies, fireflies are beetles.

Come the night, he sees beetles crawling all over him.

And most dung beetles actually wrap it into a package of some sort.

We don't know yet what dung beetles use.

The group is also called fruit and flower chafers, flower beetles and flower scarabs.

There are predator beetles, that attack other insects and still look pretty cute to us.

There are dung feeding beetles which belong to other families, such as the Geotrupidae (the earth boring dung beetle ).

So what I want to share with you now are some of the experiments that myself and my colleagues have used to investigate how dung beetles deal with these problems.

Silphidae is a family of beetles that are known commonly as large carrion beetles, carrion beetles or burying beetles.

The trip here is repeated back and forth between a provisioning site and a nest site.

It mentioned leopards and ring tailed coatis and poison dart frogs and boa constrictors and then coleoptera, which turn out to be beetles.

Unless you're prepared to get dung under your fingernails and root through the dung itself, you'll never see 90 percent of the dung beetle species, because they go directly into the dung, straight down below it, and then they shuttle back and forth between the dung at the soil surface and a nest they make underground.

So that's the dance, but after spending many years sitting in the African bush watching dung beetles on nice hot days, we noticed that there was another behavior associated with the dance behavior.

The combined light from these beetles these are actually tiny beetles is so bright that fishermen out at sea can use them as navigating beacons to find their way back to their home rivers. It's stunning.

In some places, such as the Šumava National Park in the Czech Republic's Bohemian forest, problems with bark beetles have become a heated issue with an international political dimension.

Courtesy of the fungus, ambrosia bark beetles are able to indirectly feed from many more species of trees than their evolutionary relatives that do not feed on fungi, by having the fungi do the work of overcoming the plants' chemical defenses.