Let’s do a deep dive into dung!
Dung Beetles
My favorite beetles. Different species have different strategies:
Rollers – perhaps the most familiar strategy. They form some dung into a ball, roll it away from the the dung pile, then bury it for later (or to lay eggs into).
Tunnelers – these don’t bother rolling dung, they just bury it right there at the scene of the crime.… Read the rest