Dung beetles bury animal dung to use as their own food and to provide food for their young. This group of beetles is especially prevalent in tropical rainforests. Their burying behavior incidentally ...

On the plains of South Africa, an army of dung beetles recycle the dung of large mammals. In Hluhluwe Imfolozi Game Reserve on the plains of South Africa, an army of dung beetles does one of the ...

"Catch" Phrase: "I caught a dung beetle! Nah, the joke's just too easy." Blathers' Blabber: Dung beetles are famous for the exact thing you'd assume they're famous for. In fact, they use their ...

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 ...

The winter months are finally here in Animal Crossing New Horizons, which means that not only are the seasons changing, but there are a slew of new critters to catch on your island. One of the new ...

Two individuals fighting over a dung ball sounds like a metaphor for a bad love triangle. For dung beetles, though, it’s survival. Dung is a valuable resource, used as food and as a nursery for beetle ...

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 ...

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 ...