The preference of dung beetles for different kinds of food materials was evolved by using pitfall traps baited with cow, human, pig, horse and goat dung. From 46 such trials, 17 species (belonging to 6 genera and 3 subfamilies of Scarabaeidae)of dung beetles were captured with maximum preference for cow dung (14 species, 318 beetles), followed by pig (13 species, 251 beeltes), human (16 species, 244 beetles), horse (10 species, 224 beetles) and least for goat (7 species, 25 beetles). Most dominant species were
