Insect or Invertebrates Identification - DONE

[Klipspringer]

50mm!?

In a sandy soil type, you find large, fast, deep-burying, dung beetle species.

[Saint In The City]

I'm not sure sure about the length. As I can remember it was shorter than 50 mm - maybe 25 - 35 mm? Could it be a be younger one, so the body is less structured but still quite flat/polished?

I'm wondering about the location, too. It was sitting on a big stone on the top of the mountain. Maybe it just made a rest there.

[Klipspringer]

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/6039282

It's reported for the Waterberg Plateau Park (and there is Tony Rebelo amongst the people who agree on the ID)

[Saint In The City]

I'm convinced.

[Richprins]

From Letaba camp, about the size of a football:

[Lisbeth]

Honeybees of South Africa
South Africa is home to two sub-species or races of honeybees which are indigenous to the country: Apis mellifera Scutellata (or “African bee”) and Apis mellifera Capensis (or “Cape bee”). The Cape bee is generally confined to the western and southern Cape regions particularly referred to as the Fynbos region running in an imaginary line between Vredendal on the western Atlantic coastline across to Willowvale on the eastern Indian Ocean coastline. The African bee covers the region to the north of this area although there is hybrid zone overlapping the two regions where A.m. capensis and A.m. scutellata hybridize.

Continues here http://www.sabio.org.za/beecon/

[Richprins]

Could be wasps too!

[Lisbeth]

I suppose so, but I don't think that they are yellow as they are made of wood fiber not wax

[Richprins]

Prof. Braack contacted a wasp expert who has never seen such a thing and feels it is a piece of foam mattress or something and we must have it taken down.

So who is going to Letaba soon?

[Flutterby]