THE ENGLISH colonists who brought cattle to Australia in 1788 soon faced a malodorous problem. The dung heaps that gradually and tastefully vanished back home were not going anywhere. Instead ...

It took almost two centuries for the explanation to emerge: Australian dung beetles, more used to marsupial droppings than those from cattle, left the deposits where they lay. It was only when ...

How many dung beetles are there in East Africa? That question inspired a research project more than 20 years ago when Frank Krell was a research entomologist with the Natural History Museum London.

com<-read.csv("db_mt_comp.csv",header=TRUE,sep=",",row.names=c(1)) #Test the significance of each variable in the model anova(base_rda,by="terms",perm=1000) #Test the ...

com<-read.csv("ScarabAbundanceKSCOMM.csv",header=TRUE,sep=",",row.names=c(1)) anova(base_rda,by="terms",perm=1000) anova(base_rda,by="axis",perm=1000) fig<-ordiplot ...

Starting in July 2022, the team has been collecting dung beetles across Manu’s diverse ecosystems up and down the altitude gradient, from 500 to 3,500 meters above sea level. The Manu Biological ...

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.

The study is published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B,. Prior research has shown that dung beetles forge piles of dung into balls and then roll it to a desired location not known in advance.

Peer-reviewed research published Wednesday found certain species of dung beetles — key to regulating many ecosystems by cleaning up after other animals — pair up spontaneously in male-female ...

“I wasn’t just interested in mammals or birds or plants; I was interested in how everything fit together, even the soil and the insects and the fungi and everything like that,” she says. “I realized ...

PINE RIVER, Minn. — On a cloud covered August afternoon, a group of about 20 farmers, ranchers, scientists and just plain curious folks had their eyes to the ground as they shoveled through cow ...