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Blackburn Earth-Boring Beetle

Blackburnium reichei

About

A small, globular earth-boring dung beetle with a dark brown to black body. Endemic to Australia, it processes marsupial dung. It constructs deep burrows in sandy soils provisioned with dung for larvae.

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Did You Know?

This is one of the few native Australian dung beetles adapted to process the dry, fibrous dung of marsupials.