artwork by Bradford P Ward
Probably the most enigmatic bug-fellow in Meadowfield is Scarab the Dung. She is so mysterious we don't meet her until Book Two. She is rumored to have magical powers, able to talk to the Dead Ancestors and foretell the future.
Every suntime she gathers fresh dung from the field of Four-Footed Fly Swatters and rolls it along the parched ground to her burrow, chanting in peculiar rhymes all along the way.
Her underground chamber is filled with all kinds of oddities: partially decomposed Beak Beast heads, smoldering seed pods and strange scribbles drawn on the dirt walls.
But strangest of all is her unusual relationship with someone she calls, Ra. We find out much more about Ra in Book Three, Heroes of Meadowfield —and we find out from none other than that crawling encyclopedia known as, Book Louse.
Every suntime she gathers fresh dung from the field of Four-Footed Fly Swatters and rolls it along the parched ground to her burrow, chanting in peculiar rhymes all along the way.
Her underground chamber is filled with all kinds of oddities: partially decomposed Beak Beast heads, smoldering seed pods and strange scribbles drawn on the dirt walls.
But strangest of all is her unusual relationship with someone she calls, Ra. We find out much more about Ra in Book Three, Heroes of Meadowfield —and we find out from none other than that crawling encyclopedia known as, Book Louse.
Dung Beetles are found all over the world. This is a cute video from National Geographic Films that shows dung beetles hard at work on the plains of Africa. Enjoy!
