Yves Cambefort

Yves Cambefort (center) flanked by Andrew Smith (on left) and Federico Ocampo (both University of Nebraska).  Photo by O. Montreuil.

Yves Cambefort is a specialist working on the systematics of scarabaeine dung beetles.  He is the co-editor (with I. Hanski) of Dung Beetle Ecology which was published in 1991.  Yves also has a keen interest in the mythology of the Egyptian sacred scarab beetles.  He is a Research Scientist with an appointment at the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris.