The evolution of dung beetles may have involved animals thatscientists hadn't expected:...Fedde, Corey
And because the digestive process doesn’t usually manage to suck all the nutrients out of food – poop is nutritious. Herbivores, for example, leave a third of food nutrients in their poop. As a result, animals like dung beetles and flies...
Crickets, locusts, dung beetles, bees and monarch butterflies, in addition to desert ants,all take navigational cuesfrom polarized skylight. Tiny Stilts for Some Ants, Amputated Legs for Others. Here's Why. By:Laurie L. Dove Stilts helped scientists determine that desert ants counted steps to ...
; to dung beetles that decompose waste into food and shelter (waste processing?); to the 1,400 species of bats (making up 20% of all mammals on Earth) that serve as pollinators, seed spreaders, and insect regulators (pesticides?); to the top predators like the grey wol...
Yes, I’m one of those crazies who fears going to the dentist. I’d rather go to the ob/gyn than the dentist. I’d rather experience Chinese water torture. I’d rather be forced to eat dung beetles, or just dung. Seriously. Yet, I make myself go once a year (okay, it’s usu...
How Dung Beetles Make Their Lives in Animal Waste Don’t play with poo — unless you’re a dung beetle. Then, by all means! This insect plays with animal excrement… This 100% No-Kill Rescue All Began With a Dog Found in a Ditch Countless no-kill animal shelters seek to save an...
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...
10.Dung Beetlesrock! 11.Elephants brought me to Uganda. (Yeah I know, most people would just get on a plane!) Bull elephant feeding along the Kazinga Channel. Can you spot the hippo hiding in front of him? 12.Food menus. Guaranteed entertainment. A menu is simply a guide to what may...
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But even in that relatively small number, there are a surprising variety of flowers that pursue this strategy, said Andreas Jürgens, a researcher at South Africa's University of KwaZulu-Natal. Theysmell this way to attract fliesand beetles, which normally lay their eggs in feces and rotting ...