I spent a few days at Tall Grass Nature Preserve near Strong City, Kansas earlier this month. We had seen dung beetles before but never came across the Rainbow Scarab Beetle. These dung beetles burrow under the scat instead of rolling balls away to lay eggs on. This guy, males have horns, was pretty shy, took a long time to get a clear shot. People do look at you funny when they pass you while your down crawling around a pile of scat. Anyway, a pretty cool beetle, I need to try focus stacking as I have some front and back focused shots, maybe they will get the entire beetle in focus.

Tim

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what a funny looking guy!