This species, the dung beetle, is unique in its ability to navigate using the Milky Way as a guide at night. It focuses on ...

Discover all you need to know about these fascinating insects. What is a dung beetle? Dung beetles get their name from their diet of animal poo. Wherever there are herbivorous mammals leaving ...

The dung beetle is the first and only non-human animal known to use light from the Milky Way for navigation. African dung beetles rely on the bright stripe of Milky Way’s starlight, using it as a ...

Dung beetles are unique in two ways: They walk differently than other six-legged creatures and they are able to manipulate objects much larger than they are. In studying dung beetle mechanics and ...

In 2011, we embarked on a four-year research project that explored the relationship between decreased dung beetle diversity and ecosystem functioning. What is more important to the ecosystem services ...

The new technique combines self-attention temporal convolutional networks (SATCN), bidirectional long short-term memory networks (BiLSTM), and dung beetle optimization (DBO) and is therefore ...

In phanaeine dung beetles the head and prothorasic shield reflect a visible-light and UV iridescence that is best seen from a position facing the insect. The less iridescent male horn is silhouetted ...