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 ...

The meticulous insects pirouette atop their dung balls to get their bearings and correct navigational errors. An article from Scientific American. As a dung beetle rolls its planet of poop along ...

Dung Beetle - Part 1. Just recently I saw an amazing movie called Microcosmos. It doesn't really have a plot or a storyline. It's just a series of incredibly detailed close-ups and time lapse ...

Read enough about the dung beetle and a picture of its character emerges: patient, optimistic, uncomplaining. It is capable of moving many times its own weight in excrement, which it rolls across ...

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 beetle parents don’t provide care for their offspring, but their nesting behaviors affect the next generation. If a female places a brood ball deeper underground, ...

One species, the bull-headed dung beetle (Onthophagus taurus), is the world’s strongest insect, able to pull over 1,000 times its own body weight. That strength comes in handy for dung beetles ...

"I have found 12 different dung beetle species [in this little patch of Worcester]," she says proudly. "I think people don't appreciate the biodiversity that's right in their backyard.