If the TV series “Dirty Jobs” covered animals as well as humans, it would probably start with dung beetles. These hardworking critters are among the insect world’s most important recyclers.

If the TV series Dirty Jobs covered animals as well as humans, it would probably start with dung beetles. These hardworking critters are among the insect world’s most important recyclers.

The larva feeds on the wet ball in which it was born and develops into a baby beetle. Dung beetles do a great service to the soil by adding manure to it through the conversion of dung into bio ...

If the TV series “Dirty Jobs” covered animals as well as humans, it would probably start with dung beetles. These hardworking critters are among the insect world’s most important recyclers.

An article from Scientific American. As a dung beetle rolls its planet of poop along the ground it periodically stops, climbs onto the ball and does a little dance. Why? It's probably getting its ...

"I have found 12 different dung beetle species [in this little patch of Worcester]," she says proudly. "I think people don't appreciate the biodiversity that's right in their backyard. Essentially ...

If the sound of eating dung all your life doesn’t sound that appealing to you, you’re not alone. A beetle called Deltochilum valgum shares your distaste, which is quite surprising given that ...

It took almost two centuries for the explanation to emerge: Australian dung beetles, more used to marsupial droppings than those from cattle, left the deposits where they lay. It was only when ...

Dung beetles could be the best pound-for-pound farm workers in the world. On Western Australia's south coast, farmers are taking advantage of their output by breeding their own stocks, with more ...