There are three main types of dung beetle – rollers, tunnellers and dwellers. Rollers shape dung into balls and roll them away from the pile. Tunnellers dive into the dung pile, while dwellers, on the ...

Some dung beetles are native to California, but many have been imported to help reduce damage from cattle farming. KPBS sci-tech reporter Thomas Fudge spoke with an entomologist about their role and ...

Beetles are intriguing insects that come in many shapes and sizes. These characteristics are also the easiest way to distinguish the critters, aside from location. With over 400,000 identified species ...

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 ...

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 ...

Analysing DNA inside the guts of dung beetles could provide a useful way to monitor endangered lemur populations in Madagascar. Sergei Tarasov at the Finnish Museum of Natural History in Helsinki and ...

When a Cape buffalo goes down in South Africa, lions, hyenas, and painted dogs will soon arrive to fight over the carcass. But what most people don’t realize is that the same thing happens every time ...

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, they ...

In a fossilized chunk of ancient reptilian poo, scientists have uncovered complete specimens of a new beetle species. The finding, described June 30 in Current Biology, suggests that fossilized dung ...