Fighting parasites, refreshing soil and managing manure – are dung beetles the perfect farm animal?
www.abc.net.au
Farmers in Western Australia begin breeding their own stocks of the bugs, which are proving hugely beneficial to farm and animal health.

I love seeing this sort of thing in Farming. Are there any other places where dungbeetles are used as an input to a farm?

What other insects are being introduced to farms? I know of bees (pollination) and ladybirds (pest control)

  • @j_roby@slrpnk.netEnglish
    3•1 year ago

    We have a local distributor that we use. Usually ordering direct from the insectaries requires very large wholesale orders, and our farm is much too small for that kind of volume