Dung beetle team on a roll at UWA

7 January 2022
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Farm Weekly

"MANY people know that dung beetles were introduced to Australia to clean away dung lying on pastures.

However, more than 50 years later, the true economic value dung beetles have given the country is still not known.

At The University of Western Australia School of Biological Sciences and UWA Institute of Agriculture, associate professor Theo Evans is leading research into quantifying how Australian agriculture has benefited from the importation of exotic dung beetles."

 

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