Dung beetles use stars for orientation
Thursday, January 24, 2013 - 12:20
in Biology & Nature
You might expect dung beetles to keep their "noses to the ground," but they are actually incredibly attuned to the sky. A report published online on January 24 in Current Biology shows that even on the darkest of nights, African ball-rolling insects are guided by the soft glow of the Milky Way.