dung beetles
Innate olfactory preferences in dung beetles
... adult beetles to orient towards and to learn novel dung volatiles in the field has not been evaluated in this ...in dung beetles remains open to ...2008). Dung from mammals represents a ...
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Does your preservative preserve? A comparison of the efficacy of some pitfall trap solutions in preserving the internal reproductive organs of dung beetles
... on dung beetles when using dung baited pitfall traps containing 4% PBF ...of dung may mask or overpower any possible repulsive eff ects of formal- dehyde and substantial numbers of dung ...
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Diversity and abundance of dung beetles from cattle grazing lands of Phaltan tahesil district Stara Maharashtra
... Dung beetles can be defined as coprophagous members of the Coleopteran families Scarabaeidae and Geotrupidae (Halffter and Matthews ...true dung beetles, s well as some species in the ...
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Dung Beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae and Geotrupidae) of North Carolina Cattle Pastures and Their Implications for Pasture Improvement
... NC). Dung beetles were trapped in cattle pastures from March of 2002 through September of 2003 using baited pitfall ...4,111 beetles representing 14 species from the piedmont ...57,026 beetles ...
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Spatial and temporal shifts in functional and taxonomic diversity of dung beetles in a human modified tropical forest landscape
... of dung beetles from undisturbed forest, primary forest corridors, and Eucalyptus plantations to compare the sensitivity of conceptually equivalent metrics to temporal variation in different anthropogenic ...
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Effects of Rainfall Seasonality on Scarabaeinae dung Beetles in an Agriculture Habitat in South Western Ghats
... Dung beetles were collected on a seasonal basis in May (summer season), September (southwest monsoon season) and December (northeast monsoon season) during the 2007 - 2008 study ...cow dung as bait, ...
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Functionally richer communities improve ecosystem functioning:Dung removal and secondary seed dispersal by dung beetles in the Western Palaearctic
... used dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) as a focal ...habitats, dung beetles form a group well- fitted to field studies. Dung beetles use dung for feeding and ...
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Diurnal dung beetles use the intensity gradient and the polarization pattern of the sky for orientation
... of dung beetles at low sun ...diurnal dung beetles changed their bearing to follow the rotation of a polarization ...diurnal beetles can also use the polarization pattern of the daytime ...
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Dung Beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae and Geotrupidae) in North Carolina Pasture Ecosystem
... Dung beetles were collected from Avery, Buncombe, Catawba, Chatham, Chowan, Clay, Pender, Rockingham, Union and Wake counties in North Carolina (Figure ...5.). Dung was collected from beef and dairy ...
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Co-Occurrence Patterns of Common and Rare Leaf-Litter Frogs, Epiphytic Ferns and Dung Beetles across a Gradient of Human Disturbance
... Indicator taxa are commonly used to identify priority areas for conservation or to measure biological responses to environmental change. Despite their widespread use, there is no general consensus about the ability of ...
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The brain behind straight line orientation in dung beetles
... lights), dung beetles show a tendency to roll towards a light stimulus (Smolka et ...the beetles usually use the sky to exhibit menotactic orientation, or compass ...the beetles, similar to ...
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The role of the mesothoracic spiracles in respiration in flighted and flightless dung beetles
... flightless dung beetles were more resistant to desiccation than winged species, although Chown et ...flightless beetles is known to have a high water content, and by keeping this cavity closed an ...
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Selective logging effects on ‘brown world’ faecal detritus pathway in tropical forests:A case study from Amazonia using dung beetles
... Dung beetle species richness A, biomass B, and rates of dung removal C and incidental soil bioturbation D sampled in control light grey bars and logging sites dark grey bars at surveys p[r] ...
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An ecological study of two dung beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeninae) with contrasting phenologies
... alexis trap catches, percent resorption and age structure, together with seasonal variation in rainfall at Araluen during the a 1980-81 season b 1981-82 season c and including dung quali[r] ...
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Linking species thermal tolerance to elevational range shifts in upland dung beetles
... 31 Table A1. Dung beetle species and the number of individuals collected during the surveys in 2008 and 2013 in the Moor House study area. Shown in bold are the three focal species of the study (Acrossus ...
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Endothermy in African Dung Beetles During Flight, Ball Making, and Ball Rolling
... However, when making dung balls, rolling dung balls, preparing to take off, or flying, the prothoracic, metathoracic and abdominal temperatures in both the nocturnal and diurnal species [r] ...
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A game theoretic model of kleptoparasitism with strategic arrivals and departures of beetles at dung pats
... Dung beetles Onthophagus taurus lay their eggs in brood balls within dung ...The dung that is used must be sufficiently fresh, and so beetles must keep moving from pat to pat to find ...
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Respiratory airflow in a wingless dung beetle
... rolling dung beetle that feeds on the dung of large herbivores (elephant, buffalo and black rhinoceros) and is now restricted to a few populations in the eastern Cape of South Africa, apparently because of ...
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Current status of cow dung as a bioresource for sustainable development
... cow dung by a modified chemical activation method, in which partially carbonised cow dung was treated with potassium hydroxide in the ratio of ...cow dung for ...cow dung can be converted into ...
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Red List of beetles of the Wadden Sea Area
... Quedius tristis (Grav.) Stenus calcaratus Sriba Stenus crassus Steph. problematicus Kevan Allen Stenus melanopus Marsh[r] ...
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