Shit sheller.

Shǐ ké làng (屎壳郎),

学名蜣.

There are about 2,300 species of dung beetles in the world, on any continent other than Antarctica. The most famous dung beetle lives in Egypt and is 1-2.5 centimeters long. The largest dung beetle in the world is the 10-centimeter-long Giant Dung Beetle. Most dung beetles are dung-feeders, feeding on animal feces, and are known as "nature's scavengers". When a dung beetle finds a pile of dung, it uses its legs to form part of the dung into a ball and roll it away. It hides the ball of dung before eating it. Dung beetles also feed their young in this way. A breeding pair of dung beetles will hide a ball of dung, but then the female dung beetle will make a pear-shaped ball of dung out of dirt and lay her eggs in the neck of the pear-shaped ball. When the larvae hatch, they feed on the dung ball. By the time the dung balls have been eaten, they have grown into adult dung beetles and broken out of the ground.

The Chinese medicine name is Dung Beetle Bug. In the Compendium of Materia Medica, written by Li Shizhen in the Ming Dynasty, it is recorded that the dung beetles also have catchy names such as Push Pill, Push Cart Guest, Black Oxer, Iron Armor General, and Night Swimming General. Li Shizhen explained that because the dung beetle can "turn the pill, get the pill, commonly known as the cart guest" because they "deep eyes and high nose, like Qiang Hu, back black armor, like a warrior, so there are dung beetles, generals of the name". These tiger-backed generals have a small, disproportionately flat head. The top few segments of their antennae are enlarged into lamellae that can be opened and closed, like fish gills. These gill-lobe-like tentacles are unique to the tunicates. The membranous hindwings of the shithouse are usually protected under the hard forewings, which are only deployed in flight. They are a large beetle, 23.7-40 millimeters long and 16.8-23 millimeters wide, with a short, broad, oval body, a very rounded, rumbly back, and a black or dark brown body. It is a guardian of human cleanliness and a medicinal insect, and dung beetles were recorded in the Shennong Ben Cao Jing (Classic of the Divine Husbandman's Materia Medica) more than 2,000 years ago as being used in medicine. The dung beetle is the male body, containing 1% dung beetle pigment. It is salty and cold in nature, and has the functions of suppressing fright, breaking blood stasis, relieving pain, attacking poison and laxative, etc. It is mainly used for treating epileptic frenzy, pediatric convulsions, incontinence and dysentery. It is also used externally to treat hemorrhoids, boils and poisons.