Look how hard this dung beetle works. Collectively they take tons and tons of animal droppings under the soil, which is incredibly healthy for the entire ecosystem! 🙌🏻🪲 • • • #beetle #ecosystem #wow #fyp #closeup #journey #amazing #reillytravers #lovemylife #instagram #reelsinstagram #viralvideos #insects_of_our_world | Reilly Travers

After 2 years and over 300 skills it was time to clean out our dermestid beetle enclosure. Beetles do a great job consuming meat off skulls but they turn it into either more beetles, or beetle droppings, which means all the material we’ve ever put in (besides the bone) was still in the bottom. We started with 6” of bedding and there was over 22” of material in the bottom of the tank. The problem is, there are beetles all throughout the material and we didn’t want to jeopardize the strength of th