Oops! Hit a Speed Bump! by CavalierLady

Photography • Insects • posted on Jul 30, 2014

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Description

This dung beetle busily pushed "his stash" quite a distance and then crawled under it and dug a hole till he had his prize nearly completely buried. But along the way, he hit a speed bump. Guess what the speed bump is? :D Better detail in zoom view. Thanks very much for your recent views and comments.

Comments (15)

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Adobe_One_Kenobi

5:16PM | Wed, 30 July 2014

What an outstanding image Maria. I remember a documentary about these beetles a while back that was absolutely fascinating. My guess at the speed bump is one of those lovely kitties paws?

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Richardphotos

5:18PM | Wed, 30 July 2014

I was thinking cat also. outstanding capture

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MrsRatbag

5:53PM | Wed, 30 July 2014

Surely you don't have dung beetles in Texas? And that does look like a cat's paw. Superb capture!

CavalierLady

7:30PM | Wed, 30 July 2014

Yes, Denise - we do have Dung Beetles in Texas, as you can see. :)

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jocko500

9:58PM | Wed, 30 July 2014

look like the cat is checking things out

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goodoleboy

10:44PM | Wed, 30 July 2014

I'll have to go along with the commenters above in their analyses of what the dung beetle encountered in this well focused capture, Maria.

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durleybeachbum

11:53PM | Wed, 30 July 2014

How fascinating!

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FredNunes

5:59AM | Thu, 31 July 2014

Wow.... really puts scale to this image.... great!

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helanker

8:35AM | Thu, 31 July 2014

A really interesting shot ans i would guess it is a cat :-) Excellent.

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kgb224

10:22AM | Thu, 31 July 2014

Looks like a cat paw. Amazing capture Maria. God bless.

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X-PaX

12:05PM | Thu, 31 July 2014

Very nice capture and funny story :)

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TranxG

1:34PM | Thu, 31 July 2014

LOL. Great capture.

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sharky_

3:37PM | Fri, 01 August 2014

I'm just glad I'm not a dung beetle :).... Interesting shot. Aloha

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irisinthespring

8:27PM | Sat, 02 August 2014

Awesome capture and I agree with the Kitty cat paw...:))

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danapommet

9:59PM | Sat, 02 August 2014

I did not know that you had dung beetles in Texas - I thought that they were in Africa. Learn something new everyday. It looks like a cats paw to me and a great catch of the interaction between the cat and the dung beetle!

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