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 ...

Living on and around poop is not the only remarkable thing about dung beetles. They are also incredibly strong – and there have been scientific experiments to prove it. Laboratory tests on a range of ...

Dung beetles may not have the most glamorous name or lifestyle, but they are essential for the ecology of agricultural habitats. Their contribution to nutrient recycling and biodiversity is ...

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 ...

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Nature's tiny navigators, dung beetles, have astounded scientists by using the Milky Way as a celestial compass. These African insects, previously known to use the sun and moon, have now been observed ...

More than 8,000 Bubas bison dung beetles have been sent from South Australia to Tasmania by express post, with the aim to increase calendar coverage of dung beetles in livestock-dense areas during the ...

The Dung Beetle Ecosystem Engineer (DBEE) project reached a major milestone last month—the arrival of a new dung beetle species, Gymnopleurus sturmi, on Australian shores. It is the third and final ...