It measures up to 25 millimetres, has a distinctive blue sheen and favours horse manure and cow pats. The dor beetle is most active in lower light. You may hear the hum of its wings on late spring ...

An insect species that evolved 130 million years ago has become the inspiration for cutting-edge advancements in drone, robot ...

Dung beetles are not as celebrated as the park’s black bears and elk, but they arguably play as important an ecological role as the park’s larger denizens — they clean up after them. To a dung beetle, ...

Work on Finnish dung beetles focuses on how habitat fragmentation affects the local and regional community structure of dung beetles. Here, recent changes in the Finnish landscape are treated as a ...

Researchers have developed a novel deep-learning method to predict ultra-short-term PV power, using an optimization method that is based on the behavior of dung beetles. The proposed approach ...