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The Scarab Project



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"Burial Watch" 3 tons Florida Yellow Sand, tablet, endoscope camera, quartz, insects, 2021



Carved Quartz Crystal Sarcophagi, insects collected after natural death, 2021



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.