Our most familiar image of the dung beetle shows one of them rolling a finely shaped ball of dung to a hiding place where it ...

Some species will stay behind to safeguard their offspring; others will leave the eggs to hatch, with the larvae feeding on ...

Some lay theirs inside a 'brood ball' made of poo bound together with saliva. Dung beetle larvae have sharp mouthparts. They use these to chomp through coarse droppings. The adults also slurp ...

Dung beetles have specialized gut microbiome ... including aphids, caterpillars and beetle larvae. These are just a few examples of beneficial insects. Effective crop-wide pest management relies ...