"It seems therefore that a taste for collecting beetles is some indication of future success in life!" — Charles Darwin If you aren’t enamored with beetles, you should be — after all, they are the ...

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 ...

Dung beetles play a pivotal role in sustaining ecosystem processes through nutrient recycling, soil aeration, and plant growth enhancement. Their diverse ecology encompasses a wide range of functional ...

Researchers studying scarab beetle DNA have revealed that dung eaters were around in the Lower Cretaceous 115 million years ago, or 30 million years earlier than we thought. Dung beetles may have ...

Researchers have found an evolutionary connection between dinosaurs and dung beetles. Scientists uncovered the first molecular evidence indicating that dung beetles evolved in association with ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 the ...