Locating and Working on a Dung Pat Most dung beetles are looking for the manure of herbivores because they excrete a lot of undigested food in their poop. It’s basically a pile of undigested grass and ...
Among the millions of beetle species on Earth, few are as intriguing as dung beetles — not for their appearance, but for ...
On an unseasonably warm fall morning in early November, Erin McCullough strides through Hadwen Arboretum — a small patch of woodland in Worcester in central Massachusetts. We walk through swirls of ...
If the TV series Dirty Jobs covered animals as well as humans, it would probably start with dung beetles. These hardworking critters are among the insect world’s most important recyclers. They eat and ...
Dung beetles play a pivotal role in sustaining ecosystem processes through nutrient recycling, soil aeration, and plant growth enhancement. Their diverse ecology encompasses a wide range of functional ...
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The Coleopterists Bulletin, Vol. 70, No. 1 (MARCH 2016), pp. 144-148 (5 pages) Data on the composition, abundance, and guild structure of the arboreal dung beetle communities associated with dry and ...
When Cristina Ledón-Rettig first noticed worms in the little balls of poop, she thought something had gone wrong. Ledón-Rettig studies dung beetles, and she breeds one species—the taurus scarab—in her ...
Analysing DNA inside the guts of dung beetles could provide a useful way to monitor endangered lemur populations in Madagascar. Sergei Tarasov at the Finnish Museum of Natural History in Helsinki and ...
ECOSYSTEMS ARE complex things, and monitoring their health is hard. To track every species would be impossible, so ecologists commonly focus on those that, like canaries in coal mines, are thought to ...
Deployed on farms, industrious dung beetles clean up livestock waste, improve soil and reduce harmful bacteria. By C. Claiborne Ray A. The thousands of species of voracious beetles in the family ...
Creating a census of the dung beetles of Massachusetts gives clues into the health of forests and fields. Searching for tiny dung beetles that clean the vast forest floor On an unseasonably warm fall ...
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