Brian Kerr

Dung beetles only come out on winter evenings — and the Animal Crossing winter ends soon. (If you look, the tree leaves are turning green again, underneath all that snow.) Walk around until you see a snowball rolling around of its own accord. You will observe a tiny dung beetle pushing the snowball. Get out a bug net, nudge the snowball, and catch the dung beetle as it makes its pathetically slow escape. You have one chance, so aim true. Dung beetles sell for 800 bells at the store.

If you really, really want to catch a dung beetle today, there’s a cheap trick. You will always find exactly two snowballs on the ground in your town, and if you destroy a snowball by pushing it into the water or smashing it into a tree or wall or something, it will magically regenerate when you go inside a building and then come back out. So if you had the patience, you could probably do this over and over until you spot a beetle.

Actual dung beetles live on all continents of the globe, minus Antarctica. Here is a fun page for Queensland, Australia farmers on how to attract dung beetles to your cattle ranch, where they earn their keep by eating what they eat.