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...
so they actively seek other sources of sodium and other minerals. While mineral-rich mud is a common source for sodium-seeking butterflies, they can also procure salt from animal dung, urine, and sweat, as well as from carcasses. Butterflies and other insects that get nutrients from...
; 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...
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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...
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 ...
have evolved to mimic each other. The insect is anEnd-banded Net-winged Beetle,Calopteron terminale, and it is part of a complex of Müllerian mimics that include other species of beetles in the same genus, plus beetles in various other families, and possibly Hymenopterans for good measure:...
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