Taxonomy is the science of describing, classifying and naming organisms. It organizes the vast diversity of life on Earth.
About 500 metres into the walk, he spotted a tiny chocolate brown dung beetle less than 5mm in size amid a hoard of common ...
The dung beetle Striatulus Minor. The portrait was made using a technique called photo stacking, in which the camera is on a ...
Christian Deschodt, a doctoral student at the University of Pretoria (UP), has uncovered two new species of dung beetles over ...
Beetles are an evolutionary success, with rove beetles' diversification largely due to their unique tergal gland that synthesizes defensive chemicals. This adaptation, evolving over millions of years, ...
In his latest paper, which also appeared in Zootaxa, Deschodt described yet another new species. Onthophagus pragtig probably ...
An entomologist who has been documenting dung beetles for two decades believes that a species he has just discovered could ...
Creating a census of the dung beetles of Massachusetts could help inform how to make sure dung beetles keep doing their important work in forests and farming fields.
The Kauaʻi-based National Tropical Botanical Garden's prized loulu palms are being closely monitored as the beetles were ...