Ah, the majestic dung beetle. The pinnacle of evolution. In all seriousness, these little critters are incredibly sophisticated navigators who have, for millennia, used the night sky to guide them ...

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 ...

Anyone who has walked through a barn or cattle pasture in the summer knows that flies are a nuisance and even a health hazard. Face flies can spread diseases like pink eye to cattle, and horn ...

Maybe you've never seen a splendid-necked dung beetle before. But even if you have, odds are, you've never seen one like this before. It’s hard for the naked eye to register the visual splendor of ...

For years scientists have marvelled at how dung beetles can use the moon, the sun and even the splash of the Milky Way to orientate themselves and roll their poo balls in a straight line. An ...

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 ...

Dung beetle on top of its ball of dung. Source: Bernard Dupont/Wikimedia Commons When a fresh pile of dung hits the ground, it isn’t long before the dung beetles arrive. There are so many dung beetles ...

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 ...