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  dung beetle

It is sometimes difficult to choose a painting or print on the internet. If you order a painting/print and it does not meet with your expectations, you may return it within 14 days. If you would like to return a painting, please notify Sue first via the GUESTBOOK

Please provide the following information:
- your full name and address
- your telephone number
- your reason for returning the painting/print.

IMPORTANT: Please notify Sue BEFORE returning an order.
Please place the original documentation in the package and re-wrap securely. Return postage must be prepaid and insured - C.O.D. returns cannot be accepted.

Send the painting/print to:
SUE DICKINSON
P O Box 8151
SONPARK
1206
Mpumalanga Province
South Africa

For your protection, please use Insured Parcel Post for return shipment. Shipping costs can only be compensated if the return is a result of our error.

We do everything we can to ship your order safely and securely, and we're proud to report that an order has never gone missing or been returned.
 



The Dung Beetledung beetle

The dung beetle is also known as the scarab beetle. The ancient Egyptians revered it and its image is inscribed on many Egyptian monuments, jewellery and ornaments.

In South Africa it is a familiar sight, gathering the dung for which it is named and rolling it backward to a suitably soft spot. The beetle buries its dung a few centimetres underground and then feeds on it for several days or weeks. Dung beetles manage to manipulate spheres of herbivore dung over seemingly impossible terrain and sometimes for large distances.

They put themselves at risk from predators (mostly birds) when two or more dung beetles fight over a particularly desirable ball of dung.

The female dung beetle also uses the dung balls as egg nurseries. She buries a large roll of dung and deposits an egg on top of it. The eggs hatch into white grubs that then live off the dung until they grow into adult dung beetles.




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