Dung Beetles

What are the three main groups that dung beetles can be classified into?

• Rollers, tunnelers, dwellers

• Rollers, jumpers, diggers

• C

  Tunnelers, pushers, pullers

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What are the life stages of a dung beetle?

• Egg, baby, adult

• Egg, larva, adult

• Egg, larva, pupa, adult

Through tunneling and aerating cow dung, dung beetles can reduce the production of which greenhouse gas?

• NO (nitric oxide)

• H2O (water vapour)

• CH4 (methane)

• CO2 (carbon dioxide)

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Globally, there are roughly ______ species of dung beetle.

• 1,000

• 7,000

• 15,000

Dung beetles are capable of burying up to ______ their own body weight in dung.

• 100 times

• 250 times

• 500 times

• 10 times

Dung beetles are found in every continent except for Antarctica. Why do you think dung beetles are absent from Antarctica?

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