A recent study of Kerala’s Vypin-Kadamakkudy barrier island system recorded 20,927 dung beetles from 29 species, far more diversity than researchers expected in such an urbanising landscape. Dung beetles are scarab beetles, mostly of the subfamily Scarabaeinae, that feed, breed and nest in animal dung. Encased in a hard exoskeleton, they are also remarkably strong. […]
A recent study of Kerala’s Vypin-Kadamakkudy barrier island system recorded 20,927 dung beetles from 29 species, far more diversity than researchers expected in such an urbanising landscape. Dung beetles are scarab beetles, mostly of the subfamily Scarabaeinae, that feed, breed and nest in animal dung. Encased in a hard exoskeleton, they are also remarkably strong. […]
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