Dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) play a major role in nutrient cycling, soil aeration, and the biological control of pests and parasites that breed in manure. Habitat fragmentation, pesticide usage, and conventional agricultural practices are threats to dung beetle diversity, and their conservation is of growing concern. Comparison of organic and conventional ranching practices is of gre...

Horse and cow dung were tested as substrates for oviposition by the stable fly Stomoxys calcitrans (L) (Diptera: Muscidae) in laboratory cages. Odour alone from either horse or cow dung was sufficient to attract flies for oviposition. This was confirmed in wind tunnel experiments, where both horse and cow dung were shown to attract gravid stable flies. However, when S. calcitrans was offered a ...

To determine if dung from various species of native mammals are attractive to species of Scarabaeidae differentially in a seasonal evergreen forest in Thailand, we used pitfall traps baited with fresh dung of four species (barking deer, sambar deer, Asian elephant, pig-tailed macaque) and an unbaited control. The pitfalls were deployed in Khao Yai National Park for 24 hours in March 2010. All t...

Behind its disgusting shape, cow dung has many ingredients that are very beneficial for soil fertility. This service was carried out in Slaharwotan Village, Ngimbang District, Lamongan Regency. In this village, the majority of people raise cattle, but manure is wasted and not utilized. For reason, aims to provide assistance cattle farming community process waste into organic fertilizer can be u...

Bioassays in Zimbabwe with wild-caught Glossina pallidipes Austen and G. morsitans morsitans Westwood showed that formulations of deltamethrin (Decatix, SpotOn and an experimental variant of SpotOn), alphacypermethrin (Renegade) and cyfluthrin (Cylence) applied to oxen at the manufacturers’ recommended doses gave knockdowns above 50% for 5–24 days in hot months and 24–55 days at cooler seasons....

Abstract Biomass from various sources such as cow dung is a significant source of renewable energy (as biogas) in many regions globally, especially India, Africa, Brazil, and China. However, biogas production biomass cattle slow, inefficient biochemical process, the specific produced per kg relatively small. The improvement efficiency using dilution ratios (and, hence, total solids [TS]) invest...

Mixing different herbivore species is assumed to increase vegetation use because of the complementarity their feeding choices and reduce animal parasite burden through dilution effect. Here, we compare effects mixed horse-cattle grazing monospecific horse (1.4 LU/ha) on foraging behaviour, sward characteristics parasitism in a mesophile grassland central France. In both treatments, animals were...

We used dung surveys to estimate population size and extracted an age structure from boli diameters for the elephants living in the Maputo Elephant Reserve. Our estimate was based on published defecation rates, dung decay rates, distance-sampling techniques and 1,672 dung piles encountered on 204 line-transects. The reserve had at least 311 (95% CI: 198–490) elephants at a density of 0.60 (95% ...