What is special about the Scarab?

[solarsonia666]

I see this in Egyptian motifs everywhere (and on the collar of this Egyptian cat plushie I got), and I'm wondering what the scarab represents.

 

[Yog Sothoth]

From what i understand it is allegoric for the third eye but i could be wrong. 



  I see this in Egyptian motifs everywhere (and on the collar of this Egyptian cat plushie I got), and I'm wondering what the scarab represents.