Tumblebugs are commonly found on fresh cattle dung. After a pair of these little beetles rolls their precious piece of dung into a pear-shaped ball, the female lays an egg inside the hard wall of the dung ball.
Some of the dung beetles, known as tumblebugs, form balls of dung that they roll about with their hind legs, sometimes for long distances and sometimes working in pairs. Eventually they bury the ball and lay eggs in it.
- A nickname for dung beetles is tumblebugs.
- One species of dung beetle in Peru, Deltochilum valgum, eats millipedes. It is a rare example of a scavenger species turned carnivore.
 See also: Beetle, Cattle, Dung Beetle, Roller, Scarab
  
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