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On an unseasonably warm fall morning in early November, Erin McCullough strides through Hadwen Arboretum — a small patch of woodland in Worcester in central Massachusetts. We walk through swirls of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
An insect species that evolved 130 million years ago is the inspiration for a new research study to improve navigation systems in drones, robots, and orbiting satellites. An insect species that ...
When Cristina Ledón-Rettig first noticed worms in the little balls of poop, she thought something had gone wrong. Ledón-Rettig studies dung beetles, and she breeds one species—the taurus scarab—in her ...
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