these hard-working little brown nosers
got their start 30 million years ago and
can be found on every continent but
Antarctica they’re really fascinating
but they get a bit of a bum rap a single
dung pack can vanish without trace in
less than 10 minutes
welcome to watchmojo.com it we’re
rolling up our sleeves and plunging into
the dirty world of dung beetles to count
down the five most fascinating facts
that we could find about these noble
scarabs
I’ll be loving this right number
five the Taurus scarab is the strongest
insect on earth
ants often get a lot of credit for
lifting 20 to 50 times their own weight
but this species of dung beetle also
known as an thought focused Taurus takes
the cake actually they take it spin it
around and hurl it across the room
without breaking a sweat
according to research published in 2010
they are able to lift 1141 times their
own weight that’s like some bro at the
gym benching three full cement trucks
well actually yeah that is the strength
to weight ratio but no a six foot tall
dung beetle couldn’t actually do this
because that’s not how muscles or
physics work that’s harsh
anyway the authors of that research say
Torah scarabs use their strength to
their advantage during mating season
when males must fend off competitors and
claim a female to mate with number four
they are essential for the ecosystems
without this help from dung beetles the
daily dose of 5,000 tonnes would soon
swamp the plains by eating and burying
all manner of animal droppings
dung beetles aren’t just helping to keep
your boots clean they’re helping to
build soil manure is of course a great
fertilizer and many species of dung
beetles scatter and bury the stuff
ensuring a wide distribution of the
precious nutrients therein scientists
from the University of Helsinki recently
determined that dung beetles even play a
role in lowering greenhouse gas
emissions cows as you probably know burp
and fart methane and the piles of crap
they leave behind if left undisturbed
can decompose and aerobic Li releasing
methane dung beetles in Northern Europe
spend most of their lives digging around
inside cow pats though and their tunnels
bring air into the cow turd complex
preventing the anaerobic formation of
methane and what’s unfortunate is number
three livestock medication is causing
beetle populations to decline over the
last twenty to thirty years dung beetle
populations have been declining in
various parts of the world there’s a
growing body of evidence to suggest that
drugs given to livestock to treat and
prevent parasites is at least partially
responsible for these declines it seems
that low doses of one drug in particular
ivermectin pass unchanged through
animals and are then ingested by bee
seriously hindering their ability to
reproduce this is a real problem given
how important these poopit rolling
arthropods are for their ecosystems a
Spanish study in 2015 found that in
fields frequented by animals dosed with
these medications dung decomposed 30
percent slower than in fields frequented
by undoh Stannah muls translating to 800
pounds of plop per acre per year that
isn’t getting buried by beetles that is
one big pile of number two they
navigate by the Sun and the stars take a
look at this spot the difference game
easy enough to solve right but what if
you were only shown one image at a time
could you pick out all the differences
corporate needs you to find the
differences between this picture and
this picture in Dell has told us there
were at least seven okay I see one good
okay they’re the same picture and what
of getting home and feeding your family
depended on it well welcome to the life
of a dung beetle
recent research from Lund University in
Sweden has shown that when beetles climb
up on their ball and do a little dance
what they’re actually doing is taking a
mental snapshot of the sky to find their
way home
scientists say this is significant
because while many animals use the Stars
to navigate beetles are the only ones we
know of who take a mental snapshot of
the firmament and then compare their
memory of it to the current position of
the stars pretty impressive for a bug
that needs elephant crap for a living
number one dung beetles prefer the taste
of exotic dung eat or drink enough of
anything and you’ll develop a nose for
it I guess research from the
entomological Society of America
involving 9000 dung beetles across 15
species has determined a few things in
regards to dung beetles refined palates
and what must have been the worst taste
test in history first beetles prefer
omnivore dung to herbivore dung
because the former is more odiferous
human and chimpanzee crap were their
favorites I love chimpanzees what was
really surprising though was that they
prefer to feast on the droppings of
animals that they aren’t used to one
species that co-evolved with bison
issued that familiar bouquet in favor of
imported moose zebra and water buck
turns so next time you’re trying to feed
some bratty kid who won’t need anything
but grilled cheese sandwiches with no
crust tell him that even dung beetles
like to try new things
offer him some monkey poop now you go
and pick up my so do you have a newfound
respect for dung beetles and how many
synonyms for feces did you count in this
video oh that was wicked cool for more
soil building top tens and gourmet road
apple top fives published every day be
sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com for
the beetles which survive the mission
must continue
got their start 30 million years ago and
can be found on every continent but
Antarctica they’re really fascinating
but they get a bit of a bum rap a single
dung pack can vanish without trace in
less than 10 minutes
welcome to watchmojo.com it we’re
rolling up our sleeves and plunging into
the dirty world of dung beetles to count
down the five most fascinating facts
that we could find about these noble
scarabs
I’ll be loving this right number
five the Taurus scarab is the strongest
insect on earth
ants often get a lot of credit for
lifting 20 to 50 times their own weight
but this species of dung beetle also
known as an thought focused Taurus takes
the cake actually they take it spin it
around and hurl it across the room
without breaking a sweat
according to research published in 2010
they are able to lift 1141 times their
own weight that’s like some bro at the
gym benching three full cement trucks
well actually yeah that is the strength
to weight ratio but no a six foot tall
dung beetle couldn’t actually do this
because that’s not how muscles or
physics work that’s harsh
anyway the authors of that research say
Torah scarabs use their strength to
their advantage during mating season
when males must fend off competitors and
claim a female to mate with number four
they are essential for the ecosystems
without this help from dung beetles the
daily dose of 5,000 tonnes would soon
swamp the plains by eating and burying
all manner of animal droppings
dung beetles aren’t just helping to keep
your boots clean they’re helping to
build soil manure is of course a great
fertilizer and many species of dung
beetles scatter and bury the stuff
ensuring a wide distribution of the
precious nutrients therein scientists
from the University of Helsinki recently
determined that dung beetles even play a
role in lowering greenhouse gas
emissions cows as you probably know burp
and fart methane and the piles of crap
they leave behind if left undisturbed
can decompose and aerobic Li releasing
methane dung beetles in Northern Europe
spend most of their lives digging around
inside cow pats though and their tunnels
bring air into the cow turd complex
preventing the anaerobic formation of
methane and what’s unfortunate is number
three livestock medication is causing
beetle populations to decline over the
last twenty to thirty years dung beetle
populations have been declining in
various parts of the world there’s a
growing body of evidence to suggest that
drugs given to livestock to treat and
prevent parasites is at least partially
responsible for these declines it seems
that low doses of one drug in particular
ivermectin pass unchanged through
animals and are then ingested by bee
seriously hindering their ability to
reproduce this is a real problem given
how important these poopit rolling
arthropods are for their ecosystems a
Spanish study in 2015 found that in
fields frequented by animals dosed with
these medications dung decomposed 30
percent slower than in fields frequented
by undoh Stannah muls translating to 800
pounds of plop per acre per year that
isn’t getting buried by beetles that is
one big pile of number two they
navigate by the Sun and the stars take a
look at this spot the difference game
easy enough to solve right but what if
you were only shown one image at a time
could you pick out all the differences
corporate needs you to find the
differences between this picture and
this picture in Dell has told us there
were at least seven okay I see one good
okay they’re the same picture and what
of getting home and feeding your family
depended on it well welcome to the life
of a dung beetle
recent research from Lund University in
Sweden has shown that when beetles climb
up on their ball and do a little dance
what they’re actually doing is taking a
mental snapshot of the sky to find their
way home
scientists say this is significant
because while many animals use the Stars
to navigate beetles are the only ones we
know of who take a mental snapshot of
the firmament and then compare their
memory of it to the current position of
the stars pretty impressive for a bug
that needs elephant crap for a living
number one dung beetles prefer the taste
of exotic dung eat or drink enough of
anything and you’ll develop a nose for
it I guess research from the
entomological Society of America
involving 9000 dung beetles across 15
species has determined a few things in
regards to dung beetles refined palates
and what must have been the worst taste
test in history first beetles prefer
omnivore dung to herbivore dung
because the former is more odiferous
human and chimpanzee crap were their
favorites I love chimpanzees what was
really surprising though was that they
prefer to feast on the droppings of
animals that they aren’t used to one
species that co-evolved with bison
issued that familiar bouquet in favor of
imported moose zebra and water buck
turns so next time you’re trying to feed
some bratty kid who won’t need anything
but grilled cheese sandwiches with no
crust tell him that even dung beetles
like to try new things
offer him some monkey poop now you go
and pick up my so do you have a newfound
respect for dung beetles and how many
synonyms for feces did you count in this
video oh that was wicked cool for more
soil building top tens and gourmet road
apple top fives published every day be
sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com for
the beetles which survive the mission
must continue
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