Luke Myers


  • Projects
    • Learning to be a Scarab
    • Hear/Here
    • Reading With Ants
    • Reading With Panthers
    • Places of Worship
    • 45 Seconds of a Dead Coyote
    • You Were Very Good. You Were a Good Boy.
    • My Maine Backyard VR
  • Drawing, Painting, Sculpture
    • Essential Nature
    • Paper Dragons
    • Relationship Status: Complicated
    • Shell Stories
    • Ritual Nature
    • Watercolors
  • Bio/CV

Learning to be a Scarab



Peltotrupes profundus, the Florida Deep-digger scarab beetle, is so named because of an unbelievable feat: the beetle, smaller than your thumb, digs a burrow up to ten feet down in the sand, in which to lay one egg. This is the first known video documentation of the process. Except for a taxonomic study in the 1950's, very little research has been done on these bugs. This project will change that.