How Dung Beetles Clean Up Our Messes

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You probably don’t spend much time thinking about dung beetles, but maybe you should! Because it turns out they might be able to help us a lot by improving agricultural yields and fighting climate change.

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Sources:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0929139317310971
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Images:
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Adults-fly-into-the-dung-pat-to-feed-and-mate-Beneath-the-dung-pat-the-juvenile-life_fig1_258504980
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/28828085