The Rainbow Scarab is one of North America's most beautiful beetles, a dung beetle with iridescent green-and-gold coloration and male bears an impressive curved horn on his head. Pairs roll balls of mammal dung across the ground and bury them as food for their offspring. This behavior is ecologically vital, recycling nutrients and burying seeds. It is North America's only true dung roller.
Habitat
Open forests and fields with large mammal presence
Diet
Adults and larvae: mammal dung
How common
Common
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