#dungbeetles — Public Fediverse posts
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🐘💩 In a 15-year field #experiment at #Mpala, #Kenya, researchers built fences to keep #elephants out and watched what happened.
Without elephant dung to eat, dung #beetle populations collapsed, resulting in 23% fewer species and 67% fewer individuals. The #study, led by Finote Gijsman, is the first large-scale #demonstration that protecting elephants also protects everything that depends on them.
#dungbeetles #ecology #conservation #savanna #ecosystem #insects #biodiversity #science #africa
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🐘💩 In a 15-year field #experiment at #Mpala, #Kenya, researchers built fences to keep #elephants out and watched what happened.
Without elephant dung to eat, dung #beetle populations collapsed, resulting in 23% fewer species and 67% fewer individuals. The #study, led by Finote Gijsman, is the first large-scale #demonstration that protecting elephants also protects everything that depends on them.
#dungbeetles #ecology #conservation #savanna #ecosystem #insects #biodiversity #science #africa
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African elephants function as a keystone species for dung beetles across Kenya’s savannas. When elephants are removed from experimental landscapes, dung beetle populations collapse, along with critical ecological functions those insects provide.
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African elephants function as a keystone species for dung beetles across Kenya’s savannas. When elephants are removed from experimental landscapes, dung beetle populations collapse, along with critical ecological functions those insects provide.
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17-Feb-2026
How #forest conversion can harm #dungBeetles"conversion" meaning: by deliberately creating canopy openings and enriching deadwood, the conditions of natural forests are to be imitated. These measures are considered positive for #biodiversity as they create habitats for many plants and animals.
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1116767
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17-Feb-2026
How #forest conversion can harm #dungBeetles"conversion" meaning: by deliberately creating canopy openings and enriching deadwood, the conditions of natural forests are to be imitated. These measures are considered positive for #biodiversity as they create habitats for many plants and animals.
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1116767
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RE: https://mastodon.green/@plazi_species/116022519007902519
Beetles of the genus #Cheironitis (#Scarabaeinae) are characterized by a strikingly #robust #morphology in the #adults, while the larvae usually resemble cockchafer grubs. These are #dungbeetles that exhibit #broodcare. They are widespread in #arid regions of the #Palearctic and #Afrotropical regions. YuHeng Wang et al. (2025) described, i.a., the new species C. #aiweiae from #ShirenGou (Xinjiang Uygur). #Biodiversityresearch © this text #StefanFWirth
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RE: https://mastodon.green/@plazi_species/116022519007902519
Beetles of the genus #Cheironitis (#Scarabaeinae) are characterized by a strikingly #robust #morphology in the #adults, while the larvae usually resemble cockchafer grubs. These are #dungbeetles that exhibit #broodcare. They are widespread in #arid regions of the #Palearctic and #Afrotropical regions. YuHeng Wang et al. (2025) described, i.a., the new species C. #aiweiae from #ShirenGou (Xinjiang Uygur). #Biodiversityresearch © this text #StefanFWirth
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Wildlife Photographer Captures Magical Moment Leopard Meets A Dung Beetle
Among the millions of beetle species on Earth, few are as intriguing as dung beetles — not for…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Wildlife #Africa #dailydodo #dungbeetles #leopards #Science #standard #stephenmessenger #thedodo
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Marie Dacke, professor of sensory biology at Lund University:
"How does a dung beetle find its way around?" In the dark, and while pushing a giant ball of dung.
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Marie Dacke, professor of sensory biology at Lund University:
"How does a dung beetle find its way around?" In the dark, and while pushing a giant ball of dung.
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Dung beetles are such handsome animals. Here’s a female Texas rainbow scarab, Phanaeus texensis. It is not rainbow colored like its congeners, but I’m not complaining.
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Dung beetles are such handsome animals. Here’s a female Texas rainbow scarab, Phanaeus texensis. It is not rainbow colored like its congeners, but I’m not complaining.
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#Beetles cooperate on tricky dung moves https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/beetles-cooperate-tricky-dung-moves
Spider #DungBeetles: coordinated cooperative transport without a predefined destination https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2023.2621by Claudia Tocco et al.
"female and male spider dung beetles together are able to move large dung balls across difficult obstacles. However, same-sex attempts to do the same always ended in aggressive fights"
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#Beetles cooperate on tricky dung moves https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/beetles-cooperate-tricky-dung-moves
Spider #DungBeetles: coordinated cooperative transport without a predefined destination https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2023.2621by Claudia Tocco et al.
"female and male spider dung beetles together are able to move large dung balls across difficult obstacles. However, same-sex attempts to do the same always ended in aggressive fights"
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New on Entomology Today: To better understand the behavior of dung beetles as they burrow underground, researchers in South Korea have shown they can tag beetles with thin strips of aluminum and later track them with metal detectors at depths of up to 20 centimeters. #entomology #insects #DungBeetles https://entomologytoday.org/2024/08/06/metal-detectors-innovative-approach-tracking-dung-beetles-underground/
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New on Entomology Today: To better understand the behavior of dung beetles as they burrow underground, researchers in South Korea have shown they can tag beetles with thin strips of aluminum and later track them with metal detectors at depths of up to 20 centimeters. #entomology #insects #DungBeetles https://entomologytoday.org/2024/08/06/metal-detectors-innovative-approach-tracking-dung-beetles-underground/
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Did not know that #dungBeetles were introduced into #Australia to control #cattleDung.
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Did not know that #dungBeetles were introduced into #Australia to control #cattleDung.
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I had some help when I was collecting the alpaca poo today.
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Field of fresh cow pats welcomes first dung beetles to be rewilded in France | Rewilding | The Guardian
#DungBeetles
#Rewilding
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/30/france-first-dung-beetle-reintroduction-rewilding-aoe -
Field of fresh cow pats welcomes first dung beetles to be rewilded in France | Rewilding | The Guardian
#DungBeetles
#Rewilding
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/30/france-first-dung-beetle-reintroduction-rewilding-aoe -
CW: Dung Beetle using bad language
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Article on local Singapore researchers doing biodiversity work on dung beetles.
"Tunnellers are more frequently found in Singapore and South-east Asia. These dung beetles are known for digging tunnels beneath a pile of dung and moving balls of dung underground to lay their eggs."
#Biodiversity #Nature #Biology #Beetles #DungBeetles #Ecology #Singapore
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Article on local Singapore researchers doing biodiversity work on dung beetles.
"Tunnellers are more frequently found in Singapore and South-east Asia. These dung beetles are known for digging tunnels beneath a pile of dung and moving balls of dung underground to lay their eggs."
#Biodiversity #Nature #Biology #Beetles #DungBeetles #Ecology #Singapore
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Dung beetle moms protect their offspring from a warming world by digging deeper - Enlarge / A road sign in Bursa, Turkey, warns drivers of the presence o... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1897112 #climatechange #dungbeetles #syndication #entomology #science
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Dung beetle moms protect their offspring from a warming world by digging deeper - Enlarge / A road sign in Bursa, Turkey, warns drivers of the presence o... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1897112 #climatechange #dungbeetles #syndication #entomology #science
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#introduction
Hi!I am an #evolution -ary biologist interested in using and developing #phylogenetics software for #macroevolution , recently especially for #adequacy testing of #diversification models.I'm currently a postdoc at Virginia Tech, trying to add insights from my previous work towards #causalinference
for drivers of diversification in order to bridge the gap between micro- and macro-ecology and -evolution.I work on #dungbeetles but love venturing into other systems in collabs.
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#introduction
Hi!I am an #evolution -ary biologist interested in using and developing #phylogenetics software for #macroevolution , recently especially for #adequacy testing of #diversification models.I'm currently a postdoc at Virginia Tech, trying to add insights from my previous work towards #causalinference
for drivers of diversification in order to bridge the gap between micro- and macro-ecology and -evolution.I work on #dungbeetles but love venturing into other systems in collabs.
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On the fantastic navigational skills of the dung beetle.
"[I]t’s the sun that steers the movement of dung beetles. And so does light from the moon, and from the distant stars of the Milky Way. With a life devoted to excrement but guided by the heavens, dung beetles might embody the famed Oscar Wilde quote, “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”"
https://knowablemagazine.org/article/living-world/2020/dung-beetles-gutter-gazing-stars
