News tagged with dung beetles
Flapping protective wings increase lift
New research from Lund University in Sweden reveals the value of carrying two layers of wings around. The researchers studied dung beetles and the way their protective forewings actually function. These wings do not only ...
May 29, 2012 |
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Exotic manure is sure to lure the dung connoisseur
Although the preference of dung beetles for specific types and conditions of dung has been given substantial attention, little has been done to investigate their preference for dung from exotic mammals found on game farms ...
Apr 11, 2012 |
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Dung beetle diversity affects Florida livestock producers
Dung beetles are important to healthy cattle pasture ecosystems as they provide for nutrient recycling, removal of waste products from the soil surface and assist in the reduction of pestiferous flies.
Mar 06, 2012 |
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Dung beetle dance provides crucial navigation cues
(PhysOrg.com) -- The dung beetle dance, performed as the dung beetle moves away from the dung pile with his precious dung ball, is a mechanism to maintain the desired straight-line departure from the pile, ...
Jan 18, 2012 |
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Beetlemania: The joy of dung
Darren Mann likes nothing better than getting his hands dirty. He’s at his happiest in the field with magnifying glass and notebook, delving into a fresh pile of poo. He is an insect expert and a specialist ...
May 09, 2011 |
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Scientists reveal cracks in egg theory
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in Cambridge have found cracks in the long-standing theory that the number of eggs animals have -- and the size of those eggs -- is related to how much parental care they invest ...
Jun 08, 2010 |
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Pulling power points the way to the world's strongest insect
Following months of gruelling tests and trials, scientists now reveal the World's strongest insect to be a species of dung beetle called Onthophagus taurus.
Mar 23, 2010 |
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Female dung beetles use horns to fight over manure
(PhysOrg.com) -- Dung beetles are among the few species in which the females are more impressively equipped with armor than males, and a new study explains why: the females fight each other for the best manure ...
Mar 04, 2010 |
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Climate Change Triggered Dwarfism in Soil-Dwelling Creatures of the Past
(PhysOrg.com) -- Ancient soil-inhabiting creatures decreased in body size by nearly half in response to a period of boosted carbon dioxide levels and higher temperatures, scientists have discovered.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 06, 2009 |
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Dung beetle named after Darwin
A dung beetle from Costa Rica has been named after Charles Darwin and the Darwin Initiative. It was discovered during a Natural History Museum led expedition.
Sep 22, 2009 |
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Fossilized dung balls reveal secret ecology of lost world
A new study of 30 million year old fossil 'mega-dung' from extinct giant South American mammals reveals evidence of complex ecological interactions and theft of dung-beetles' food stores by other animals.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jul 15, 2009 |
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Sexual Encounters of the Third Kind: Darwin's Beetles Still Producing Surprises
(PhysOrg.com) -- On the eve of Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday, researchers at the University of New Mexico and University of Montana report a new twist in sexual selection theory - the realm of evolutionary ...
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Feb 06, 2009 |
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