Common Green Charaxes gift card roll dung into round balls

roll dung into round balls

Scarabaeus semipunctatus can be found Spain

Many dung beetles

captured by Beth Watson at Laurel Grove Cemetery in Savannah

The specimen is encased in a 9“x9“ frame

Common Green Charaxes gift card roll dung into round ballsCharaxes eupale can be found in the lowland evergreen forests of Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, Zambia, Uganda, Sudan, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania, & Malawi. Their green coloring is due to pigmentation, as opposed to the color being produced structurally (scales). This specimen is encased in a 5 x 5 frame.