Dung beetles eat plants : insights into the nutritional world of Euoniticellus intermedius (Reiche) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae)
Dung beetle eggs develop within the finite nutritional environment of the brood ball, which is made using maternally processed animal faeces. It is thought that microbial and gut-derived excretions constitute the major source of N and C for adult dung beetles, while developing larvae, which have ret...
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University of Cape Town
2017
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/25597 |