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Definition of dung beetle in English: dung beetlenoun A beetle whose larvae feed on dung, especially a scarab. The larger kinds place the dung in a hole before the eggs are laid, and some of them roll it along in a ball. 金龟子，屎壳郎；蜉金龟；蜣螂 Superfamily Scarabaeoidea, in particular families Scarabaeidae and Geotrupidae Example sentencesExamples - When a dung beetle finds a pile of fresh manure, it selects the choicest, least-fibrous bits and crafts them into a large ball that will supply its own dinner for days to come or serve as both shelter and food for its developing young.
- The presence of dung beetles or flesh flies in the inflorescence can most easily be explained by their attraction to the heat produced by the plant, not its odor.
- The dung beetle is the first animal known to use the polarization patterns of the moon to navigate.
- This dung beetle was photographed in South Africa.
- The dung beetle feeds on filth and produces the same filth from which she then breeds.
- He could have filmed a documentary on the life and times of the African dung beetle, for all I cared, and I would have disliked him all the same.
- Like the front end of a bulldozer, a dung beetle's head is flattened into a broad plate that can push soil up and out of the tunnel; lying safely beneath this protective shield are its delicate organs of taste and vision.
- One of Africa's finest exports to Australia is the dung beetle which is doing sterling work in curbing, if not actually getting rid of, the sub-continent's pesky flies.
- My favorite scene features a dung beetle trying to roll a bit of dinner up a hill; a more Sisyphean struggle I haven't seen.
- At the risk of waking up one morning to find I've been reincarnated as a dung beetle for daring to criticize a saint and ethical genius, let alone an actual deity, let's explore this issue more.
- Will it change into a dung beetle or into a beautiful butterfly?
- My farm is home to many varieties of dung beetle - they eat horse and cow manure.
- The parrot, the mouse, the cockroach, and the dung beetle all have the same rights to life as human beings.
- Maya was intrigued and absolutely determined to see a dung beetle rolling a ball.
- We live in a sad era that mistakes mean-spirited arrogance for intellectual daring, juvenile nastiness for independence of mind, the dung beetle for the artist.
- If you were rotten, you might be a vole or an asp or a dung beetle.
- If you're a male dung beetle and you want pry another male out of his tunnel, it helps to have a longer horn.
- So some years ago Australia wondered what they could do to ease the fly scourge and hit on the idea of an African dung beetle.
- He's as good-looking as a dung beetle now that I've seen his true ‘colors’.
- It's called a dung beetle and it lives in Africa.
Definition of dung beetle in US English: dung beetlenoundəNG ˈbēdl A beetle whose larvae feed on dung, especially a scarab. The larger kinds place the dung in a hole before the eggs are laid, and some of them roll it along in a ball. 金龟子，屎壳郎；蜉金龟；蜣螂 Superfamily Scarabaeoidea, in particular families Scarabaeidae and Geotrupidae Example sentencesExamples - When a dung beetle finds a pile of fresh manure, it selects the choicest, least-fibrous bits and crafts them into a large ball that will supply its own dinner for days to come or serve as both shelter and food for its developing young.
- One of Africa's finest exports to Australia is the dung beetle which is doing sterling work in curbing, if not actually getting rid of, the sub-continent's pesky flies.
- It's called a dung beetle and it lives in Africa.
- Maya was intrigued and absolutely determined to see a dung beetle rolling a ball.
- My favorite scene features a dung beetle trying to roll a bit of dinner up a hill; a more Sisyphean struggle I haven't seen.
- The parrot, the mouse, the cockroach, and the dung beetle all have the same rights to life as human beings.
- We live in a sad era that mistakes mean-spirited arrogance for intellectual daring, juvenile nastiness for independence of mind, the dung beetle for the artist.
- Will it change into a dung beetle or into a beautiful butterfly?
- If you're a male dung beetle and you want pry another male out of his tunnel, it helps to have a longer horn.
- He's as good-looking as a dung beetle now that I've seen his true ‘colors’.
- The dung beetle feeds on filth and produces the same filth from which she then breeds.
- This dung beetle was photographed in South Africa.
- At the risk of waking up one morning to find I've been reincarnated as a dung beetle for daring to criticize a saint and ethical genius, let alone an actual deity, let's explore this issue more.
- If you were rotten, you might be a vole or an asp or a dung beetle.
- So some years ago Australia wondered what they could do to ease the fly scourge and hit on the idea of an African dung beetle.
- My farm is home to many varieties of dung beetle - they eat horse and cow manure.
- The dung beetle is the first animal known to use the polarization patterns of the moon to navigate.
- Like the front end of a bulldozer, a dung beetle's head is flattened into a broad plate that can push soil up and out of the tunnel; lying safely beneath this protective shield are its delicate organs of taste and vision.
- The presence of dung beetles or flesh flies in the inflorescence can most easily be explained by their attraction to the heat produced by the plant, not its odor.
- He could have filmed a documentary on the life and times of the African dung beetle, for all I cared, and I would have disliked him all the same.
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