The project is a de-novo genome annotation of the ball-rolling dung beetle, Kheper lamarcki. Which would be the first publicly available draft genome of any ball-rolling beetle species. K. lamarcki is one of several species of dung beetles found at a dung pile. With high numbers of beetles at the dung pile comes high competition and K. lamarcki has evolved a behaviour to escape this competition. It forms dung into a ball and rolls it away along a straight-line, bringing it further from the competition with each step. This stereotypical escape behaviour has made this beetle one of the model organisms for studying navigation in insects. Adding a draft genome of our beetle to the existing collection of navigational insect genomes, we are hoping to find the genes responsible for navigation for our beetle. Having a first draft genome we hope will lead to the discovery of unique genes for our dung beetle and potentially genes for better understanding this stereotypical behaviour this beetle exhibits.