Shell Lang is also called Dung Beetle, do you know what kinds of Shell Lang there are? There are more than 20,000 species of dung beetles in the world, distributed on any continent outside of Antarctica. The most famous dung beetle lives in Egypt and is 1 to 2.5 cm long. The largest dung beetle in the world is the 10 cm long giant dung beetle. Most dung beetles are dung-eating, feeding on animal droppings and have the title of "nature scavengers"
First, the type of shell lang
1. Scarab
Scarabs live in grasslands, mountains, deserts and jungles, and wherever there is animal feces, they will be industrious. In the vast world of beetles, scarabs are the most magical - their bodies are covered with armor that flashes bronze or weak emerald green or dark blue light. In ancient Egypt, the people used this beetle as a totem object, and when Pharaoh died, the heart would be cut out and replaced with a stone studded with scarabs.
2, like a cow buzzing dung beetle
The cow humming dung beetle is an insect that is only found in Beijing, and is an insect of the genus Dung beetle in the family Scarab.
3. Stink dung beetle
The stink dung beetle is black throughout, the male has horn-like protrusions on the top of the head, the dorsal plate of the anterior thorax is strongly sunken backwards and downwards, and sharp horns are formed at the edge of the depression, the female has a normal head and the dorsal plate of the front thorax, and the elytra have a longitudinal ridge, which is phototropic, and the body length is 20 to 30 mm. It is distributed in Beijing, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Shanxi, Jiangsu, Korea, Japan, Mongolia and other places.
4. Humming dung beetle
Humming dung beetle is an insect of the genus Scarab beetle, with a body length of 4.6 to 5.7 mm and a body width of 2.7 to 3.6 mm. The body is small, short and oval, the dorsal abdomen is quite thick and arched, the body is dark brown to black, the whole is densely covered with hairs, the coat color is exposed, and the luster is dull.
5. Shennong cleans the dung beetle
Shennongjie dung beetle is an insect of the genus Dung beetle in the family Scarab, with a body length of 3 to 4 cm, a pitch-black body, and a forked horn.
Second, what does shell lang mainly eat?
shell lang mainly eats stool. The big thing is that the waste residue produced by the animals after digesting the food is smelly, very bad, and we all feel very dirty. But there is still a lot of nutrients in the stool, because the animal's stomach can not absorb all the nutrients in the food, so the residual nutrients will be excreted with the residue, which is why the feces can be used as fertilizer, can make the plants grow well, and the plants can absorb the nutrients in the feces through the soil. Then the shell lang is fed on the nutrients in the feces, and can absorb the nutrients in the feces.
In fact, what we collectively call the shell lang is a fecal beetle, strictly speaking, including the dung golden turtle and the dung beetle, although we all call the shell lang, in fact, there is still a difference. Dung turtles belong to the dung turtle family, and dung beetles belong to the fecal-eating subfamily under the golden turtle family, in a word, although they have similar diets, they are not the same beetles, and can only be regarded as relatives.