Bug FAQBoreocanthon praticola
Boreocanthon praticola (formerly Canthon praticola) · Order: Coleoptera · Family: Scarabaeidae
Boreocanthon praticola is a dung beetle in the scarab family.
Source: Wikipedia
How to recognize it
Boreocanthon praticola is a dung beetle in the scarab family.
Source: Wikipedia
What it eats
It prefers prairie-dog dung but will also use dung from cattle, bison, pigs, humans, and rabbits.
Source: Wikipedia
Where it comes from
It is native to the Great Plains of North America, ranging from southern Canada to Texas, and into the Southwest and northwestern Mexico.
Source: Wikipedia
Where it is found in the US
Recorded in 5 of 51 states and DC. Most records: Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, California, Oklahoma.
Darker = more records. Counts are museum and citizen-science records, not population size.
Source: GBIF
Months it is reported in the US
Source: GBIF
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- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boreocanthon_praticola
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Text written 2026-10-24 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-24.