Talk:Dung beetle

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I would be interested to read more about the evolutionary history of dung beetles, especially how dung feeding behavior diversified over time. This could provide readers with further insight into the functional purposes the roles served during evolutionary history. Furthermore, while the article broadly discusses the ecological niche the dung beetle serves in the environment, readers could benefit from more details on the dung beetle’s interactions with other organisms and their impact on ecosystem dynamics and species survival. --User: JacksonPanWashU 12:20, 15 February 2024

Dung beetle separate from Scarabaeidae
Part of this article is from the Scarabaeidae article. I've made Dung Beetle independent from Scarabaeidae because: Therefore, it seems inappropriate to simply equal Scarabaeidae with dung beetles. Hope it has not caused confusion.--K.C. Tang 00:48, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
 * 1) Most of the dung beetles belong to the subfamilies Scarabaeinae and Aphodiinae of the family Scarabaeidae, but these are only two of the subfamilies of the family.
 * 2) On the other hand, there are dung-feeding beetles which belong to families other than Scarabaeidae, consider e.g. Geotrupidae.

dung beetles love
I love dung beetles and my mom —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.158.179.18 (talk • contribs) 08:00, 22 May 2006

How about dung bettles in fiction (especially movies) where they are used as punishment by entombing people with them. I know they eat dung but would there be any possibilty that they eat carcass too? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.90.128.5 (talk • contribs) 19:58, 22 May 2006
 * I know what you are thinking (The Mummy and The Mummy Returns) and the answer is no. Scarabs (while it makes for really fun imagery) don't eat meat of any kind.  The details of the ones shown in the films were mixed with both scarab beetles and rhinoceros beetles, but dung beetles really are nothing more than dung-eaters that push big balls of poo up.--71.104.170.20 (talk) 03:05, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

Acknowledgement
Thanks User:Robth very much for tracing the elusive quote from Plutarch!--K.C. Tang 03:27, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Khepri is god of the rising sun!
I tried to correct a mistake on the page.

Kepri is god of the rising sun. Not the setting sun.

You can also read it on the associated page of Khepri: Khepri was identified as the aspect of Ra which constitutes only the dawning sun (i.e the sun when it comes into being).

Dawning sun is Rising. Not setting....! Also it makes no sence that the god of the setting sun is known as He who comes into being.... So lets please change it to rising sun

82.93.78.196 18:41, 19 January 2007 (UTC) Van de Ven

Quote?
There is a quote under the Ecology and behavior section, It's not in english and I can't tell if it has anything reason there, can someone remoe it, or add a connetation? Sephiroth storm 04:03, 21 October 2007 (UTC) Question Were did king tut get buried? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.79.189.110 (talk) 00:14, 11 May 2011 (UTC)

Question
Can you tell more in your paragraph how scarabs are related to ancient Egyptian curses? Just thought it would be interesting! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.79.189.110 (talk) 00:17, 11 May 2011 (UTC)

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"Scarab in ancient Egypt" section
This really is a content fork of that article and should be merged back into it.--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 05:27, 26 May 2018 (UTC)

reincarnation
Chri Ye (talk) 21:42, 13 February 2024 (UTC)deleted because did not have a neutral tone