Many dung beetles use mammalian feces as a food source and build and relocate dung balls to lay eggs and shelter their larvae. This behavior provides many ecosystem services including nutrient cycling ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. If the TV series “Dirty Jobs” covered animals as well as humans, it would probably start with dung beetles. These hardworking critters are ...

Dung beetles are rather disgusting little bugs. They live off the excrement of other animals. Not only do they eat the poo, they also roll it into balls. While I've never considered how a dung beetle ...

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 ...

Here’s a dung beetle, sitting on a ball of poo that it made earlier, wearing a pair of adorable insulating mitts. We’ll get to the mitts later… The dung beetle, Scarabaeus nigroaeneus, as its name ...

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 ...

Owls have been observed using dung as bait to trap beetles for food, the journal Nature has reported. Scientists have likened the behaviour to "tool use", something that is rarely seen amongst wild ...

Originally published on October 20, 2018. Nematodes, or tiny worms, that ride along on the genitals of dung beetles help raise the beetle's offspring by boosting the good microbes in the beetle's dung ...