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)

  • palituOP
    2·
    1 year ago

    Aphidius colemani

    i think this is always freaky horror movie sort of stuff.

    Do you go to generalist bug suppliers?

    • 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

      • palituOP
        1·
        1 year ago

        Insectary is not a word I have heard before… or even thought would exist!