Sun Beetles

Item #: SCP-XXXX

Object Class: Keter

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXXX must be contained in a 4m x 4m x 0.5m metal box filled with sand inside of a room at area 13. SCP-XXXX must be shined with ultraviolet light for 7 hours and then all light sources from the room must be taken out for other 7 hours constantly. SCP-XXXX must be feeded 30 killograms of meat after a cycle of no light is completed. No living organism must be in the room of SCP-5082 during a light cycle.

Description: SCP-XXXX its a beetle like species found in the [REDACTED] Desert. Each individual beetle is 2 cm wide and 3cm long, each one has 6 lower extremities and a horizontal mandible. SCP-XXXX is find in a rock like state under the sand when no ultraviolet light is shining the zone where they are, when the sand is shined with light, the rock starts cracking in specific points where the joints are supposed to be. When the transformation is complete, the beetle will start diging out of the sand and looking for a pray in groups of 80 to 120 beetles. The hunt will not stop until all of the beetles are fed, when the hunt is over, the beetles borrow themslefs under the sand and wait until the sunset

Addendum: Testing on SCP-XXXX has revealed that, in the form of rocks, all of the beetle mass is completely transformed into a rock like material. And when broken, the beetle dies.