What Do Dung Beetles Do With Dung? This is where things start to get a bit more complicated. Dung beetles can be broadly divided into three groups depending on how they behave when they find a dung ...

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Placed over the heart in the wrappings of Egyptian mummies, archaeologists have often found carved amulets of scarab beetles, a species of dung beetle. The amulets, many with spells inscribed on them, ...

Not exactly the poster child for cute animals, dung beetles now join the list of species affected by human-caused climate change. Indeed, the long tentacles of climate change now extend all the way ...

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 share the load when it comes to showing their affection for each-other, when transporting a “brood ball”. Dung Beetles are known for collecting piles of dung for various uses. One of ...

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 ...

Creating a census of the dung beetles of Massachusetts could help inform how to make sure dung beetles keep doing their important work in forests and farming fields. Now to a search for dung beetles ...

Researchers from SDSU and the Ecdysis Foundation under the direction of Jon Lundgren continue to work on improving our understanding of the role of dung beetles and other insects in pasture management ...