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    Dung beetles are beetles that feed on feces. Some species of dung beetles can bury dung 250 times their own mass in one night. Many dung beetles, known...
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    however, do not cause economic damage and many, such as the lady beetles and dung beetles are beneficial by helping to control insect pests. The name of...
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    The flightless dung beetle (Circellium bacchus) is a species of dung beetle endemic to a few areas of South Africa, including the Addo Elephant National...
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  • Dung beetle(s) may also refer to: Dung Beetles (video game), a 1982 computer game Dung Beetles, characters from the Conker video game series "Dung Beetle"...
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    Australia, dung beetles from elsewhere have been introduced to help recycle the cattle dung back into the soil. (see the Australian Dung Beetle Project and...
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  • The Australian Dung Beetle Project (1965–1985), conceived and led by Dr George Bornemissza of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation...
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    Scarabaeidae (redirect from Scarab beetle)
    vegetation. Some of the well-known beetles from the Scarabaeidae are Japanese beetles, dung beetles, June beetles, rose chafers (Australian, European...
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    Scarabaeus sacer (category Beetles described in 1758)
    type species of the genus Scarabaeus and the family Scarabaeidae. This dung beetle is native of southern Europe, northern Africa and western Asia, and it...
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    Onthophagus taurus (category Beetles described in 1759)
    scarab, is a species of dung beetle in the genus Onthophagus and the family Scarabaeidae. Also known as the bull-headed dung beetle, it is a species that...
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  • Dung Beetles is an Apple II maze game written by Bob Bishop published in 1982 by Datasoft. The gameplay is similar to Pac-Man, but a portion of the maze...
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    medium-sized dung beetle ranging from 30-175 mg in dry body weight. It is flightless with strong mandibles that allow it to exploit dry dung. It is native...
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    The scarab beetle subfamily Scarabaeinae consists of species collectively called true dung beetles (there are also dung beetles in other subfamilies and...
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    addressed Gregor as "dung beetle" (Mistkäfer), e.g., 'Come here for a bit, old dung beetle!' or 'Hey, look at the old dung beetle!'", Nabokov remarks that...
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    Organisation (CSIRO). Bornemissza was known for his work on the Australian Dung Beetle Project (1965–1985) while working at CSIRO's Division of Entomology....
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    arthropods, especially bees and wasps, but including some true flies, dung beetles, bugs, and spiders. Cuckoo bees are specialized kleptoparasites which...
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    Feces (redirect from Dung hill)
    Many organisms feed on feces, from bacteria to fungi to insects such as dung beetles, who can sense odors from long distances. Some may specialize in feces...
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    Euoniticellus intermedius (category Beetles described in 1849)
    Euoniticellus intermedius (also known as the Northern Sandy Dung Beetle) is a species of dung beetle in the family Scarabaeidae. E. intermedius is native to...
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  • dung Coprolite, fossilized feces Dung beetle Mundungus Fletcher or "Dung", a character in the Harry Potter novels The Dung, percussionist and singer for...
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    Phanaeus vindex (category Phanaeus (beetle))
    (like other members in its genus), is a North American species of true dung beetle in the family Scarabaeidae. It is found in eastern and central United...
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    its eggs in the lap of Zeus but the beetle flies about the god's head, or in some versions rolls a ball of dung onto him, causing the god to leap up...
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    Anoplotrupes stercorosus (category Beetles of Asia)
    Anoplotrupes stercorosus, the dor beetle, is a species of earth-boring dung beetle belonging to the family Geotrupidae, subfamily Geotrupinae. Varieties...
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  • / Dung beetle: Yeah, we're like [censored] dung beetles, and we roll the poo around [censored] knows what for. / Conker: Oh, really. / Dung beetle: Do...
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    that it's tough to be a bug, which segues into the finale. Bees, dung beetles (The Dung Brothers), dragonflies and other bugs sing about how insects help...
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  • Devil Cara Delevingne as Makeup Robot Ego Nwodim as Dung Beetle Shaman Kyle MacLachlan as Dung Beetle Majordomo Al Gore as himself Coolio as Kwanzaabot...
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    Geotrupes stercorarius (category Beetles of Europe)
    species of earth-boring dung beetle. Its common name is the dor beetle, or, the dumbledore, and is common throughout Europe. The beetle is up to 2.5 cm (1 in)...
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    (trȳpētēs), borer) is a family of beetles in the order Coleoptera. They are commonly called earth-boring dung beetles or dor beetles. Most excavate burrows in...
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    Deltochilum gibbosum, the humpback dung beetle, is a species of (formerly canthonini) in the family Scarabaeidae. "Deltochilum gibbosum Report". Integrated...
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    the dung beetle genus Dicranocara of the Richtersveld in South western Africa spend their whole lifecycle in close association with dung middens. Dung middens...
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    Scarabaeus consists of a number of Afro-Eurasian dung beetle species, including the "sacred scarab beetle", Scarabaeus sacer and is the namesake of the tribe...
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    Scarabaeus satyrus is an African species of dung beetle. These beetles roll a ball of dung for some distance from where it was deposited, and bury it,...
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