The dung beetle gets its closeup. The portrait was made using a technique called photo stacking, in which the camera is on a ...

Creating a census of the dung beetles of Massachusetts could help inform how to make sure dung beetles keep doing their important work in forests and farming fields.

"Dung beetles can be used as indicators of habitat quality," says McCullough. "So they're very sensitive to changes in environmental conditions like climate change or deforestation or habitat ...