Other than flying bugs like the mosquitos and bees, most enemies in Grounded tend to just trundle along across the ground. Sometimes they run, sometimes they lunge, sometimes they ...

In this wild food episode, we venture into the forest to find dung beetles clinging to trees and crabs hiding in nearby waters. With nature as our kitchen, we prepare and grill the beetles for an ...

Don’t play with poo — unless you’re a dung beetle. Then, by all means! This insect plays with animal excrement (*shudder*), and while it may be gross, it’s actually a crucial part of our ecosystem.

14. Dung Beetles Night-time Navigators Dung beetle. Image via Unsplash These industrious insects might seem like unlikely astronomers, but dung beetles have proven to be remarkably adept at using ...

In Dung Beetle Simulator, your main goal is to form a huge dung ball by collecting poo-poo. Following that, you can take it down the hill by entering the race and earn Wins (in-game currency) for ...

Dung Beetle Simulator is an interesting Roblox title that can keep you engaged for hours. In this experience, your main goal is to collect poo-poo and form a huge dung ball.

Other dung beetles that have antennas with eight segments, like Hathoronthophagus spinosa, have such a relationship with ants. Deschodt says more work will have to be done to confirm this hypothesis.

On a January day in 2023, following a rain shower, Deschodt's walk led him to stumble upon a tiny chocolate-brown dung beetle, no larger than 5 mm. Intrigued by his discovery, he collected the ...

Chafer grubs are the larvae of chafer beetles in the family Scarabaeidae, which also includes dung beetles. There are eight species of chafer beetle in the UK. Some can cause issues in lawns, but many ...

Welsh told me to look closely at that dung beetle ball and perhaps I’d see bits of ancient vegetative matter incorporated into that stony sphere of poop. Fossil bones took a bit longer for me to ...

This article was originally featured on Knowable Magazine. Caroline Chaboo’s eyes light up when she talks about tortoise beetles. Like gems, they exist in myriad bright colors: shiny blue, red ...