Sentences with phrase «many dung beetle»

It is no different than me asserting quite contrary to all available evidence, that the universe was created by a dung beetle named steve who lives in a glorious refuse heap in another dimension.

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.»

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When an animal lightens its load, dung beetles race to the scene.

Simple science text and dramatic illustrations give a close - up view of the fascinating world of the dung beetle.

Their findings reveal that dung beetles were much more frequent in the previous interglacial period (from 132,000 to 110,000 years ago) compared with the early Holocene (the present interglacial period, before agriculture, from 10,000 to 5,000 years ago).

«I was carrying out sampling for my Masters Degree studies, but I had no idea that new dung beetles could be found in a forest that is disturbed by human activities, such as livestock grazing and land - use change,» recalls Moctezuma.

While studying their diversity at conserved forests and cattle grazing sites across the mountains of Mexico, the researchers found some new species of dung beetles.

As their name suggests, dung beetles are insects that feed mainly on mammal faeces.

For decades, an international research team, led by Dr Gonzalo Halffter, has studied dung beetles across the world, especially in Mexico.

«So I was really surprised when I discovered three dung beetle species.»

With at least 58 % of the area of Mexico occupied with livestock farming, dung beetles are essential in cleaning up.

A group of animals that has woken up a special interest for studies in Mexico is the so - called «dung beetles».

Apart from the two new dung beetles, formally called Onthophagus clavijeroi and Onthophagus martinpierai, the present paper also provides theories about the current distributions of these insects across the Mexican mountains and their putative evolutive relationships.

While carrying out a biodiversity study, a Mexican - Italian research team discovered three new dung beetle species in montane forests disturbed by livestock grazing.

These are the males of the new dung beetles Onthophagus clavijeroi (left) and Onthophagus martinpierai (right).

For context, the activity of almost 5,000 dung beetles from 53 species was recorded within the largest logging concession in the Brazilian Amazon, covering 544,000 hectares of native forest — an area 3.5 times that of London.

«The dung beetle species richness and biomass, and the soil removal rates were negatively affected by increasing the logging intensity.»

«Contrary to expectations, we found concave - shaped relationships between logging intensity and biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, demonstrating that sensitive dung beetle species and important processes may be lost following even low intensity anthropogenic forest disturbances,» said co-author Professor Jos Barlow of Lancaster University.

«Reduced impact logging still harms biodiversity in tropical rainforests: Study looked at the impact of logging by examining its effect on forest dung beetles.»

But rolling dung balls in a straight line is also key to the male dung beetle's reproductive success.

What they found was that the dung beetles rolled in straight paths and made it to the periphery quickly using natural light from the moon or a moonless starry sky.

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

Using starlight, dung beetles travel relatively straight (lines inside top circle).

Dung beetles «see about 1000 times better than honey bees, which have the best daytime vision,» explains James Gould, an evolutionary biologist and an expert in insect communication and navigation from Princeton University.

«It's the dung beetles that have provided the reason to go and look.»

The experiment was conducted both outdoors under the night sky, and inside a planetarium where researchers could manipulate the starlight and hone in on the specific cues that the dung beetles were using.

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The moisture in dried - out elephant droppings isn't much to live on in a dry environment, so desert - dwelling dung beetles have had to evolve clever ways to conserve water.

Scientists have even shown that dung beetles use the polarisation pattern of moonlight for orientation.

One of the largest and most important groups of dung beetles in the world evolved from a single common ancestor and relationships among the various lineages are now known, according to new research by an entomologist from Western Kentucky University.

NEW ZEALAND has a novel solution for dealing with a crap situation: import dung beetles.

In a tour - de-force investigation of beetle breathing, scientists have discovered that dung beetles came up with an unexpected strategy: They breathe out of only one body opening while at rest.

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

Often thought of as nature's garbage collectors, the important ecosystem service offered by dung beetle helps recycle nutrients, reduces parasites, and can even help seeds germinate.

To give their young a start in life, female dung beetles — which have much larger horns than males — make balls of dung, called brood balls, from cowpats and bury them underground.

The life of a female dung beetle is highly competitive.

Nicola Watson and Leigh Simmons of the University of Western Australia, Perth, pitted female dung beetles (Onthophagus sagittarius) against each other in a race for dung — a valuable resource that provides nutrients for their eggs.

The toxicity of new livestock medications therefore needs to be verified in ecotoxicological tests with individual animal species such as the common yellow dung fly, the barn fly or a dung beetle.

Researchers studying plants, ants, birds, dung beetles and orchid bees in the Brazilian Amazon have found clear evidence that deforestation causes drastic loss of tropical forest biodiversity.

«As expected, the overall number and diversity of dung beetles, dung flies and parasitoid wasps decreased as the ivermectin concentration increased,» explains Blanckenhorn.

Some members of the team were in on last year's Ig Nobel Prize — winning paper «Dung Beetles Use the Milky Way for Navigation,» which appeared in the journal Current Biology.

Dung beetles, too, contribute to the economy: without them, bovine dung festers on rangeland, increasing the number of pests and reducing the available forage for the cattle.

So they trapped airborne dung beetles in a Swaziland savanna by hanging up a transparent sheet and selected one individual from each of 10 species to dissect.

Dung beetles may one day be a conservationist's best friend.

«When you combine the current increase in meat consumption around the world with the steep declines in many dung beetle species, overall emissions from cattle farming can only increase.»

Of the dung beetles living in Northern Europe, most spend their entire lives within the dung pats.

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

Byrne studies insects, particularly the behavior of dung beetles: how they cool down, walk, and navigate.