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Most beetles do, it's in their nature. Beetles are extremely important to human being and other living things. Without them, Earth would soon be overrun with insect pests or buried in dung and rotting dead material!

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Because dung, to them, is a very important. They lay their eggs in them, eat 'em, and more.

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Dung beetles roll dung around so they can use it for food later. Some types of dung beetles may also live in the piles of dung.

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because it is easy to find and they think it is tasty also if they didn't the world would be piled high in manure|poo

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They shape it into balls, and then roll it back to their nests, to be eaten.

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they eat the dung and recycle the nutrients when they die

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Dung beetles get dung from cows.

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Because the beetle eats it!

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