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The larvae of moths, caterpillars ... but numbers appear to be in decline. Some native dung beetles, such as the five-horned dung beetle (Onthophagus pentacanthus), are also nocturnal.

Dung beetles arrived at Leeston in the 1970s when Joyce Rabjohns ... tunnelling into the soil with them and leaving each ball behind to feed on their larvae. “So that hectare that is being grazed has ...

There's an average of one larvae per glass of orange juice and hundreds ... the products are also waste-free themsleves; even the dung produced by the insects can be composted and used as ...

Snakes that can scale vertical cliffs to snare a passing meal and gigantic predatory insects that prey on chicks and bat pups are among the other species that have evolved to feed on these dung eaters ...

Based on the ratio of body weight to strength, the dung beetle is not only the strongest insect but the strongest animal in the world, pound-for-pound. It can pull over 1,000 times its body weight.

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