- Also known as the Desert Ironclad Beetle.
- Very communal!
- Have lived up to 15 years in captivity.
- Eat plant and animal debris.
- Rough size = 0.71in to 0.83in.
- They secrete a powder blue colored coating they excrete on themselves to protect them from the sun.
- They will "play dead" when threatened, laying on their backs with their little legs kicking away...
- Considered great "cleaner beetles" for desert scorpions.
- Very communal!
- Have lived up to 15 years in captivity.
- Eat plant and animal debris.
- Rough size = 0.71in to 0.83in.
- They secrete a powder blue colored coating they excrete on themselves to protect them from the sun.
- They will "play dead" when threatened, laying on their backs with their little legs kicking away...
- Considered great "cleaner beetles" for desert scorpions.