Dung Beetle

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Dung Beetle
Scientific Name	Scarabaeidae
Appearances	Animal Crossing: Wild World Animal Crossing: City Folk
Location	On snowy ground (rolling snowballs)
Date Availability	December to February
Time Availability	5am to 8pm
Sales Price	800 Bells
Cage Size	1x1
Real Life

The Dung Beetle is a quite common bug introduced in Animal Crossing: Wild World. It is the perpetrator of those mysterious moving snowballs.

How to catch

The Dung Beetle can be found randomly around your town, it will be pushing a snowball on snowy ground. Just look for a snowball that is moving. It will fly away if you run at it or if the snowball rolls off a ledge or into water. Sneak up on it and swing your net. Aim well else it will fly away!

Player

This is what you player says when you catch a Dung Beetle:

Animal Crossing: Wild World

Animal Crossing: City Folk

"I caught a Dung Beetle! Um... Ew."

Menu

When looking at the Dung Beetle in the bug menu it will say this:

Animal Crossing: Wild World

Animal Crossing: City Folk

"These eat and lay their eggs in dung. Yes, it's gross, but good fo the earth."

Museum

If you donate this bug to the Museum, Blathers will say this:

Animal Crossing: Wild World

Animal Crossing: City Folk

Trivia

• The Dung Beetle is about 35 millimeters long.

Real life

The whole of the Scarabaeidae insect family will only eat feces and other decaying matter. They will lay their eggs in dung and the larva hatch and feast on it. The Egyptians worshiped them.

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