Do you know why dung beetles roll balls of poo, or how they find their way? Discover all you need to know about these fascinating insects. What is a dung beetle? Dung beetles get their name from their ...

This species, the dung beetle, is unique in its ability to navigate using the Milky Way as a guide at night. It focuses on ...

The dung beetle is the first and only non-human animal known to use light from the Milky Way for navigation. African dung beetles rely on the bright stripe of Milky Way’s starlight, using it as a ...

Dung beetles, those unsung heroes of the insect world renowned for their prowess in breaking down cattle dung, have now been ...

Believe it or not, we'd have even worse troubles ahead since we'd face a serious poop problem without one of the world's greatest recyclers, the dung beetle. You see, history has taught us exactly ...

Work on Finnish dung beetles focuses on how habitat fragmentation affects the local and regional community structure of dung beetles. Here, recent changes in the Finnish landscape are treated as a ...

In phanaeine dung beetles the head and prothorasic shield reflect a visible-light and UV iridescence that is best seen from a position facing the insect. The less iridescent male horn is silhouetted ...

Researchers have developed a novel deep-learning method to predict ultra-short-term PV power, using an optimization method that is based on the behavior of dung beetles. The proposed approach ...