They're concealed beneath tough wing cases known as elytra. The flightless dung beetle of South Africa, Circellium bacchus, is a wingless species. It may have shed its wings as an evolutionary ...

Dung beetles, proportionally stronger than elephants, are able to move a ball of dung 40 times their own weight. In fact, for their size, dung beetles are among the strongest animals in the world.

South Africa is unleashing weevil beetles in a bid to fight off the sprouting growth of salvinia minima, an alien species of aquatic, floating fern that grows on the surface of freshwater bodies.

attracts dung beetles, carrion beetles. Alien-like appearance, from South Africa. Cape Sundew: Carnivorous plant, feasts on ...