Sacred Scarab
Surprisingly, the most common beetle, the whole meaning of life consists in driving dung balls, may be associated with any deity.
And, nevertheless, the sacred scarab (lat. Scarabaeus sacer) in ancient Egypt was a highly respected member of the order Coleoptera. Priests even inserted it instead cut the heart of the dead during their mummification. This unusual action was to symbolize the flight of the soul and the rebirth of a person in the spiritual world.
The very same ice balls from the ancient Egyptians was the symbol of movement sunlight, because Scarab directs his load always strictly from east to west, as if repeating the path of the sun across the sky. He does it for very practical reasons - so much easier to navigate in space. All beetle gathered will serve him for the food and for the development of the offspring.
Interestingly, the scarabs themselves agree there any manure, while for their children, they are choosing the best, in their opinion, the best - sheep. It is in the process of skiing, the period which lasts from March to July, and an acquaintance of the future married couple.
After the male and female knurled few balls, they buried them in separate wells and sprinkle on top of the ground. Now we can begin to procreation. Perhaps scarabs shy, again especially for mating dig a deep hole, a length of 10 to 30 cm, which ends with a large nest chamber.
Fertilize the female, the male goes about his business, and future mother puts a rather large egg in one of the balls, following the cardinal rule: Every kid should have its own house. And for the season it may have about a dozen offspring. This and its mission ends - scarabs, like most bugs, do not care about posterity.
After 5-12 days the egg hatches the larva, which is a month with a slight turn into a pupa. It will take another two weeks to pupa developed into an adult. However, young scarabs are in no hurry to get out into the hostile outside world: they prefer to sit in the so-called "False cocoon", while seasonal rains soften its hard shell. Some even manage to spend so winter.
Adult black scarabs. Matt Young and old beetles, whose life had time to pull and "rub" is shiny. The average specimen of 2.5 to 3.7 cm, and the sexual dimorphism underdeveloped, i.e. layman is very difficult to distinguish male from female. Experts also note on the inside edge of hind tibia of male red-haired golden fringe, which is not in females. The eyes of both sexes are large, and a weak frontal keel. The back of the cheeks and the crown in the small seed. The legs and lower body are covered with dark brown hairs.
Interestingly, the sacred scarab live not only in Egypt. They can be found in all the southern regions of Western Europe: in France, Italy, Greece, Bulgaria, and in the extreme south of the steppes of Ukraine, in the Crimea and Georgia.
Surprisingly, the most common beetle, the whole meaning of life consists in driving dung balls, may be associated with any deity.
And, nevertheless, the sacred scarab (lat. Scarabaeus sacer) in ancient Egypt was a highly respected member of the order Coleoptera. Priests even inserted it instead cut the heart of the dead during their mummification. This unusual action was to symbolize the flight of the soul and the rebirth of a person in the spiritual world.
The very same ice balls from the ancient Egyptians was the symbol of movement sunlight, because Scarab directs his load always strictly from east to west, as if repeating the path of the sun across the sky. He does it for very practical reasons - so much easier to navigate in space. All beetle gathered will serve him for the food and for the development of the offspring.
Interestingly, the scarabs themselves agree there any manure, while for their children, they are choosing the best, in their opinion, the best - sheep. It is in the process of skiing, the period which lasts from March to July, and an acquaintance of the future married couple.
After the male and female knurled few balls, they buried them in separate wells and sprinkle on top of the ground. Now we can begin to procreation. Perhaps scarabs shy, again especially for mating dig a deep hole, a length of 10 to 30 cm, which ends with a large nest chamber.
Fertilize the female, the male goes about his business, and future mother puts a rather large egg in one of the balls, following the cardinal rule: Every kid should have its own house. And for the season it may have about a dozen offspring. This and its mission ends - scarabs, like most bugs, do not care about posterity.
After 5-12 days the egg hatches the larva, which is a month with a slight turn into a pupa. It will take another two weeks to pupa developed into an adult. However, young scarabs are in no hurry to get out into the hostile outside world: they prefer to sit in the so-called "False cocoon", while seasonal rains soften its hard shell. Some even manage to spend so winter.
Adult black scarabs. Matt Young and old beetles, whose life had time to pull and "rub" is shiny. The average specimen of 2.5 to 3.7 cm, and the sexual dimorphism underdeveloped, i.e. layman is very difficult to distinguish male from female. Experts also note on the inside edge of hind tibia of male red-haired golden fringe, which is not in females. The eyes of both sexes are large, and a weak frontal keel. The back of the cheeks and the crown in the small seed. The legs and lower body are covered with dark brown hairs.
Interestingly, the sacred scarab live not only in Egypt. They can be found in all the southern regions of Western Europe: in France, Italy, Greece, Bulgaria, and in the extreme south of the steppes of Ukraine, in the Crimea and Georgia.
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