How to Use dung beetle in a Sentence

dung beetle

noun

• The dung beetle has been deemed the strongest insect on Earth.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 19 Jan. 2023
• Through a dung beetle’s compound eyes, stars appear as blobs, not as points of light.
  — New York Times, 29 July 2021
• My papa’s house furled and unfurled, high as a church steeple in some parts, and low as a dung beetle in others.
  — Okwiri Oduor, Harper’s Magazine , 22 June 2022
• But by the 1960s, native Australian dung beetles were struggling in the mire of sticky, non-native cow pats.
  — Richard Jones, Smithsonian, 10 Jan. 2018
• To escape competition at the dung pile, a ball-rolling dung beetle forms a piece of dung into a ball and rolls it away.
  — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 8 Dec. 2014
• The dung beetle, Scarabaeus nigroaeneus, as its name suggests, eats the faeces of large grazing mammals.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 22 Oct. 2012
• When there are lots of species of dung beetles around, and faeces vanish quickly, an ecosystem is assumed to be in good shape.
  — The Economist, 11 Jan. 2020
• To find out whether these same genes guide horn growth, Hu and his team genetically tinkered with dung beetles.
  — Erica Tennenhouse, Science | AAAS, 21 Nov. 2019
• Among the insects dying: the useful dung beetle, which eats pests and redistributes nutrients in the soil of cow pastures.
  — National Geographic, 12 Dec. 2019
• The various species of dung beetle that live together in the Great Plains region have evolved to consume, and share peacefully, its turd piles.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2012
• Previously, a dung beetle and some hare remains had been the only signs of animal life at the site, Willerslev said.
  — Maddie Burakoff, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Dec. 2022
• In fact, the dung beetle is the first animal known to navigate via the subtle glow of the galaxy as a whole, rather than by individual stars.
  — Breanna Draxler, Discover Magazine, 25 Jan. 2013
• In one entry, a dung beetle climbs out of a dead man’s mouth; a jellyfish floats between buildings in another.
  — Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 23 July 2020
• For example, energy spent growing one large body part may leave another body part smaller, as seems to be the case with the dung beetle's horns.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 29 Oct. 2013
• Using scent detectors on their antennae, dung beetles home in on a pile of feces and descend en masse.
  — Jason Bittel, National Geographic, 24 June 2019
• But Australian dung beetles were used to recycling marsupial dung and could not tackle the cow chips.
  — Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson, WSJ, 20 June 2019
• For the nocturnal African dung beetle Scarabaeus satyrus, this becomes a useful reference point.
  — Fiona McMillan, National Geographic, 4 Nov. 2019
• Certain dung beetle females have even evolved horns that may be used for battling with other females in contests over access to males.
  — Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 2 Aug. 2021
• And a scarab ring (which held amuletic powers in ancient Egypt) features iridescent wings crafted from, what else, but the actual wings of a dung beetle.
  — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 21 Aug. 2018
• And now Dacke has discovered yet another tool in the same dung beetle’s sensory array.
  — Jason Bittel, National Geographic, 24 June 2019
• In the right light and aspect, dung beetles are strikingly colorful and, yes, beautiful creatures.
  — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 3 May 2018
• In ancient Egypt, the most important amulet was the scarab, usually modeled after the common Egyptian dung beetle, Scarabaeus sacer.
  — National Geographic, 13 Mar. 2019
• In the new movie, the tuft has an even wilder journey, nabbing multiple minutes of screen time as it gets consumed by a giraffe, becomes part of a dung beetle’s haul and is carried by ants before Rafiki finds it.
  — Raisa Bruner, Time, 17 July 2019
• For the dung beetle Onthophagus taurus, one of those is a type of nematode worm that helps cultivate the right mix of bacteria and fungi to ensure the beetle larvae stay fed and healthy.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 3 Oct. 2018
• But who would’ve thought the humble dung beetle had celestial navigation figured out?
  — Meredith Carpenter, Discover Magazine, 31 Jan. 2014
• Graney's version of her appears first as a precocious 11-year-old, redistributing treasury money from the military to the poor and ending a plague of flies with the help of her mother's pet jumbo dung beetle.
  — Tony Adler, Chicago Reader, 18 Apr. 2018
• Though dung beetles of the world have many different behaviors, their most famous maneuver involves rolling fresh excrement into a ball.
  — Liz Langley, National Geographic, 4 Feb. 2017
• In the end, the humble dung beetle’s horns can give us a peek into the mechanisms underlying the vast complexity of animal forms, humans included.
  — Smithsonian, 22 Mar. 2017
• Other studies have used bugs like mosquitoes and dung beetles, Gillett’s insect of choice, and could be added to rainforest surveys to increase the diversity mammals detected.
  — Kyle Frischkorn, Smithsonian, 7 Aug. 2017
• Some antiparasite treatments in cattle can harm dung beetles, for example.
  — Gretchen Vogel, Science | AAAS, 6 Sep. 2019

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024