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Scarab beetle?
Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Started conversation Sep 8, 2005
Shouldn't that be a Dung beetle?
Scarab beetle?
Ascverlaren Cherry Posted Dec 8, 2005
A scarab is an Egyptian dung beetle, thought to aid fertility and also used as a symbol for rebirth
Scarab beetle?
Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Dec 8, 2005
Fair enough! I really must stop learning my zoology from "Mummy" movies... 
(There, the consensus of opinion is that they eat the dead flesh off carcases...)
Scarab beetle?
Ascverlaren Cherry Posted Dec 9, 2005
For anyone with a burning desire to learn more about the humble scarab, I found this site totally devoted to the family *Scarabaedae*...
http://www.naturalworlds.org/scarabaeidae/index.htm
Quite a facinating group of creatures, really
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Scarab beetle?
- 1: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Sep 8, 2005)
- 2: Ascverlaren Cherry (Dec 8, 2005)
- 3: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Dec 8, 2005)
- 4: Ascverlaren Cherry (Dec 9, 2005)
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