Deer poop insect?

[Nice65]

Taken today in Petworth Park. It’s a deer park, and this is deer droppings that something has made a nest beneath. Anyone got any idea what it is? It’s fairly wide, sort of large bumblebee type width.

It rained yesterday, both droppings and excavated debris must have been today.

 

[Robbi]

Fracking

 

[Nice65]

I did some looking, I think it’s a Dor. Big dung beetle found in woodland but also on heath and grasslands.

 

[Robbi]

I need to look that one up

Aha.... https://www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailV2&ccid=6huoszDU&id=ACC72828C990B9BD2A84EC23DA05B7B9987E5523&thid=OIP.6huoszDUG0dDopssp0X0IwHaFj&mediaurl=https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.ea1ba8b330d41b4743a29b2ca745f423?rik=I1V%2bmLm3Bdoj7A&riu=http%3a%2f%2f4.bp.blogspot.com%2f_h8PF1bPChlI%2fTGq3G1h4wsI%2fAAAAAAAAAyU%2fEj3t2iMZD8o%2fs1600%2fIMG_2199.jpg&ehk=k2aqwmR4pHr%2fE%2fSE9OLemzwzjdPFbecOfvV63ucpWro%3d&risl=&pid=ImgRaw&r=0&exph=768&expw=1024&q=dor+beetle&simid=608005883249647723&FORM=IRPRST&ck=182299A51B1E7EB4B0334D87810E50DD&selectedIndex=0

Seen those before but didn't know the name.

( otherwise known as the Fracking Big Bug.)

 

[nigelp]

Nice spot. I think it is as Nice65 said a Dor or also can be the Minotaur beetle. Most likely a Dor beetle on an open grassland. Both have the excavation and large (up to 10mm) entrance hole.
They drag the dung down into the brood chambers and lay eggs on the dung for the larvae to feed off. The tunnel and chambers can be up to 1/1.5 metres.

I see them in the New Forest on slightly raised edges to the rides.