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The reproductive behavior of Neotropical dung beetles [PDF]
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Dung beetles display complex reproductive behaviors involving sexual findings, sexual recognition, fighting for mates and food used for nesting, sperm competition, and parental care.
Carmen Huerta +6 more
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Diversity, 2023 During their feeding process, dung beetles perform a series of ecosystem functions that provide valuable ecosystem services, such as soil fertilization, improvement of soil properties, plant growth enhancement, and biological pest control.
Purevdorj Jargalsaikhan +4 more
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The dung beetle dance: an orientation behaviour? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 An interesting feature of dung beetle behaviour is that once they have formed a piece of dung into a ball, they roll it along a straight path away from the dung pile.
Emily Baird +4 more
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How Dung Beetles Steer Straight
Annual Review of Entomology, 2021 Distant and predictable features in the environment make ideal compass cues to allow movement along a straight path. Ball-rolling dung beetles use a wide range of different signals in the day or night sky to steer themselves along a fixed bearing. These include the sun, the Milky Way, and the polarization pattern generated by the moon.
Marie, Dacke +4 more
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Innate olfactory preferences in dung beetles [PDF]
Journal of Experimental Biology, 2010 SUMMARYThe effects of insect larval diet on adult olfactory responses to host-plant or food volatiles are still debated. The induction of adult host preferences has been studied in insects with diverse ecologies, including parasitoids, flower-visitors and phytophagous species.
Dormont, Laurent +4 more
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Dung beetles use their dung ball as a mobile thermal refuge [PDF]
Current Biology, 2012 At midday, surface temperatures in the desert often exceed 60°C. To be active at this time, animals need extraordinary behavioural or physiological adaptations. Desert ants, for instance, spend up to 75% of their foraging time cooling down on elevated thermal refuges such as grass stalks.
Smolka, Jochen +5 more
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Nature's All‐in‐One: Multitasking Robots Inspired by Dung Beetles [PDF]
Advanced ScienceBinggwong Leung +2 more
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Macroecology of Dung Beetles in Italy. [PDF]
InsectsThe Italian fauna includes about 170 species/subspecies of dung beetles, being one of the richest in Europe. We used data on dung beetle distribution in the Italian regions to investigate some macroecological patterns. Specifically, we tested if species richness decreased southward (peninsula effect) or northward (latitudinal gradient).
Fattorini S +3 more
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Life, 2021 Dung beetles use excrement for feeding and reproductive purposes. Although they use a range of dung types, there have been several reports of dung beetles showing a preference for certain feces.
Mattia Tonelli +4 more
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Agronomy, 2023 The introduction of numerous exotic dung beetles across southern Australia in regions where native dung beetles are not generally efficient in processing livestock dung has resulted in significant reductions in the quantity of such dung on the soil ...
Long Ma +7 more
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