dung beetle

Diverse trees and grasses support scores of other species, from vivid green-orange Fischer’s lovebirds to dung beetles.
Only 3 percent of Earth’s land is unchanged by people|Jonathan Lambert|May 28, 2021|Science News For Students
This diversity of trees and grasses support scores of other species, from vivid green-orange Fischer’s lovebirds to dung beetles.
Only 3 percent of Earth’s land hasn’t been marred by humans|Jonathan Lambert|April 15, 2021|Science News
Their surveys showed that 29 species in the state — including dung beetles, freshwater crayfish, flies, snails and spiders — had their entire ranges burned.
A year after Australia’s wildfires, extinction threatens hundreds of species|John Pickrell|March 9, 2021|Science News
Blister rust is like having the flu; the pine beetle is like fast acting leukemia.
What It Takes to Kill a Grizzly Bear|Doug Peacock|November 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST

In 2007, FWS reported that the beetle outbreak had affected only 16 percent of the whitebark pines.
What It Takes to Kill a Grizzly Bear|Doug Peacock|November 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The Beetle was launched with a series of television commercials unlike any before them.
Nationalism on Four Wheels|Clive Irving|October 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
They could wash off cow dung, forget a yell that had no meaning.
Lillian Smith’s Bombshell Novel About Interracial Love|Nathaniel Rich|May 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Private parts, be they of ducks, damselflies or dung beetles, turn out to have evolved novel forms at breakneck speeds.
Oh, if These Penises and Vaginas Could Talk: Genitalia as Tools, Toys, and Weapons|Menno Schilthuizen|May 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Her feet crush creeping things: there is a busy ant or blazoned beetle, with its back broken, writhing in the dust, unseen.
God and my Neighbour|Robert Blatchford
But strangest of all the dishes at the Tagal's feast was one prepared from a kind of beetle.
Alila, Our Little Philippine Cousin|Mary Hazelton Wade
Bran or horse-dung inside was a good thing as a stop-gap, though it added not to the strength of the boiler.
Life of Richard Trevithick, Volume II (of 2)|Francis Trevithick
It is likewise formed daring the decay of animal and vegetable matters, and is consequently evolved from dung and compost heaps.
Elements of Agricultural Chemistry|Thomas Anderson
Well rotten dung, which had been kept in the manure heap upwards of six months.
Elements of Agricultural Chemistry|Thomas Anderson

British Dictionary definitions for dung beetle

dung beetle

dung chafer

noun

any of the various beetles of the family Scarabaeidae and related families that feed on or breed in dung

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