Sentences with phrase «dung beetles like»

By digging around in their food, dung beetles like Aphodius pedellus may aerate cow pats — and thereby modify methane emissions.

Instead, write, «Studying dung beetles like these might help lower gasoline prices!»

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Binx Boiling vents his rage, for instance, by calling ours «the very century of merde, the great shithouse of scientific humanism where needs are satisfied, everyone becomes an anyone, a warm and creative person, and prospers like a dung beetle.»

Like stags or elephants, which use antlers and tusks to fight for dominance, male dung beetles use their horns to ward off rivals.

We have also seen them as a source of inspiration: The Egyptians symbolized their sun god, Ra, as a great scarab beetle rolling the sun like a ball of dung across the heavens.

Like all insects, dung beetles breathe through a set of tiny holes called spiracles.

Or in this upscale neighborhood, watched various illegal aliens hustle like dung beetles back and forth across the thick St. Augustine lawns through scattershot swarms of gnats.

Now why would a dung - beetle possibly be wanting to collect fruit, aside from looking like a boss collecting it?

But we liked the look of a dung beetle attached to a ball, bouncing around.»