dung beetle

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dung beetle:

see scarab beetlescarab beetle
or scarab,
name for members of a large family of heavy-bodied, oval beetles (the Scarabaeidae), with about 30,000 species distributed throughout most of the world and over 1,200 in North America.
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She said the Farming Connect dung-beetle project involved the release of 3,000 of the beetles at Great House Farm and another 3,000 at two other farms at different times of the year.

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