The total biomass of beetles was slightly higher on conventional farms than on organic ones, but this difference did not correspond to a difference in dung-system functioning. However, at the farm level, we found significant differences in species richness, abundance and total biomass, reflected ...
Dung beetles play a valuable role in Australia’s grazing ecosystems, benefiting farmers’ production systems leading to greater profit. For example, the beetles have a positive impact on nutrient recycling by taking dung and its nutrients down into the soil for pasture to access; they aerate the...
If you’re really hungry,you can make super dooper balls of dung like the one in the photo of me. And better still, because I’m a roller, I can easily roll it quickly away from other hungry dung beetles.The competition is always fierce. Luckily for me, my species of dung beetle is...
Dung removal by macrofauna such as dung beetles is an important process for nutrient cycling in pasturelands. Intensification of farming practices generally reduces species and functional diversity of terrestrial invertebrates, which may negatively affect ecosystem services. Here, we investigate the effects...
Dung beetles bury faeces below ground and make it difficult for pathogens to survive. To study how this may aid food safety, the entomologist drove a van full of pig faeces along the US West Coast to follow the planting of broccoli at 70 farm fields during the growing season. Broccoli, mu...
So what I want to share with you now are some of the experiments that myself and my colleagues have used to investigate how dung beetles deal with these problems. 现在我要跟大家分享的 是我自己和我的同事做过的一些实验 我们研究了蜣螂 是如何处理这些问题的。 ted2019 The WHO estimates tha...
It is an essential reference for farmers, Landcare groups and environmental organisations concerned with sustainable land management. The book examines the ecological, environmental and production benefits of dung beetles, and provides a non-technical analysis of their value and potential role in ...
These beetles are generally not a problem for most people. They’re even a huge asset for farmers and ranchers because they clean up most of the excrement leftover by livestock. However, on the occasion that you’re trying to recycle animal feces for fertilizer, dung beetles might be a pro...
But by the 1960s, native Australian dung beetles were struggling in the mire of sticky, non-native cow pats. Pats stayed where they were laid—drying and hardening in the sun—for years, choking the grass. Choose your off-the-cuff statistic here: Each year, the dung of five cows would...
Mora-Aguilar EF, Arriaga-Jiménez A, Correa CMA et al (2023) Toward a standardized methodology for sampling dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae) in the Neotropics: a critical review. Front Ecol Evol. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2023.1096208. 11: Article Google Scholar Neita JC, Escobar...