Minotaur beetle becomes insect of the year 2024
The bull weevil (Typhaeus typhoeus) can pull a thousand times its body weight and has an important function in the natural cycle. Now it has received a special award: the excrement-eating beetle has been named Insect of the Year 2024. Experts at the Senckenberg German Entomological Institute in Müncheberg, Brandenburg, selected the bull weevil from a number of suggestions, as the institute announced on Thursday (7 December 2023). The animal, which belongs to the dung beetle family, plays a key role in ecosystems, but populations are declining alarmingly, according to the institute.
12.05.2015 - Stierkaefer, Stier-Kaefer (Typhaeus typhoeus, Typhoeus typhoeus), Maennchen, Deutschland | Minotaur beetle (Typhaeus typhoeus, Typhoeus typhoeus), male, Germany
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09.05.2008 - Stierkaefer (Typhoeus typhoeus), Freisteller | minotaur beetle (Typhoeus typhoeus), cutout
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12.05.2015 - Stierkaefer, Stier-Kaefer (Typhaeus typhoeus, Typhoeus typhoeus), Maennchen mit Kotpille, Deutschland | Minotaur beetle (Typhaeus typhoeus, Typhoeus typhoeus), male with dung pill,...
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13.05.2022 - Stierkäfer, Männchen, zwischen Kot, Losung von Schaf, Typhaeus typhoeus, Minotaur beetle, male, Le Minotaure, Mistkäfer, Geotrupidae, dung beetles
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12.05.2015 - Stierkaefer, Stier-Kaefer (Typhaeus typhoeus, Typhoeus typhoeus), Maennchen, Deutschland | Minotaur beetle (Typhaeus typhoeus, Typhoeus typhoeus), male, Germany
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06.09.2011 - Stierkaefer (Typhoeus typhoeus), an seinem Bau, Deutschland, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Granat | minotaur beetle (Typhoeus typhoeus), at its den, Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia, Granat
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15.03.2020 - Stierkäfer (Typhaeus typhoeus), Männchen krabbelt über Moos, Naturschutzgebiet Heiliges Meer, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland, Europa
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12.05.2015 - Stierkaefer, Stier-Kaefer (Typhaeus typhoeus, Typhoeus typhoeus), Maennchen, Deutschland | Minotaur beetle (Typhaeus typhoeus, Typhoeus typhoeus), male, Germany
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12.05.2015 - Stierkaefer, Stier-Kaefer (Typhaeus typhoeus, Typhoeus typhoeus), Maennchen, Deutschland | Minotaur beetle (Typhaeus typhoeus, Typhoeus typhoeus), male, Germany
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12.05.2015 - Stierkaefer, Stier-Kaefer (Typhaeus typhoeus, Typhoeus typhoeus), Weibchen, Deutschland | Minotaur beetle (Typhaeus typhoeus, Typhoeus typhoeus), female, Germany
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