Dung beetles reduce the numbers of both these flies by competing with the fly larvae for food and physically damaging the eggs. One study has shown that the presence of dung beetles on a cow pat ...

PINE RIVER, Minn. — On a cloud covered August afternoon, a group of about 20 farmers, ranchers, scientists and just plain curious folks had their eyes to the ground ...

Is it possible that a beetle could be helping improve soil health and protect water quality? I have heard about dung beetles, but never really gave them much thought or realized what I was looking at ...

On an unseasonably warm fall morning in early November, Erin McCullough strides through Hadwen Arboretum — a small patch of woodland in Worcester in central Massachusetts. We walk through swirls of ...

Nematodes and dung beetles interact a lot in nature. The small worm-like parasites hitch a ride on their insect partners as they fly from one dung patty to another. And until recently, scientists had ...

A temperate tunneling species of dung beetle seems capable of adapting to climate change, but their tropical cousins may be ...