The evolution of dung beetles may have involved animals thatscientists hadn't expected:...Fedde, Corey
Beneficial traits: Make food products: Bees Are edible: Grasshoppers, Beetles, Ants Pollinate flowers: Bees, wasps, ants, butterflies, flies, etc. Decomposers: Silverfish, cockroaches, Springtails, etc. Predators of detrimental insects Detrimental traits Are insects icky?.. Sometimes. Structural pests ...
In dung beetles, for example, the size of the beetle’s body is dependent in part on how large of a brood the mother beetle produced. To demonstrate the same effect in humans, researchers looked at educational attainment. They studied at 21,637 Icelandic people, born between 1940 and 1983...
typical flowery smells won’t do. Different birthwort species produce a range of bouquets that remind us of carrion, rotten fish, dung, sweat, cheese, yeast fermentation or decomposing plants. These aromas are irresistible to many insects, but only phorids, blow flies (Calliphoridae), midges...