Known for spending much of its life underground, the little-known American burying beetle could hold the key to developing ...

On average, dung beetles can roll a ball of 50 times their own weight. One specific species can pull a dung ball 1,141 times ...

Dung beetles have been around since the time of the dinosaurs. They then flourished as mammals and their droppings increased. These insects are now found on every continent, except Antarctica. 'The ...

To a dung beetle, mammals’ droppings are everything. Some beetles nest and mate directly in dung piles or patties, and most adults feed on feces. But more importantly, several species bury excrement — ...

So, imagine if all 8,000 species of dung beetle, plus other doo-dining insects, like flies, vanished worldwide. The land would be knee-deep in...you know. Farmland, forest, and desert would all ...

According to our first guest today, the secret to maintaining clean water and sustainable pastures lies right under our feet ...

Beginning in the 1960s, CSIRO has introduced 44 dung beetle species from overseas. Dung beetles have specialized gut microbiome bacteria. This helps them break down the cellulose in the dung and ...

Dung beetles, proportionally stronger than elephants, are able to move a ball of dung 40 times their own weight. In fact, for their size, dung beetles are among the strongest animals in the world.

They uncovered numerous new species, such as the small dung beetle (Onthophagus luridipennis) and the small leaf beetle (Aoria nigripes). Many Hong Kong insect specimens were put on display in the ...

Even on this small island, new insect species are being discovered today. From our dung beetle surveys and examination of previous survey data, we will likely discover at least five new dung ...