A belly full of wriggling worms makes wood beetles better recyclers

Sunday, May 12, 2019 - 04:41 in Biology & Nature

Common beetles that eat rotten logs chew up more wood when filled with a roundworm larvae, releasing nutrients more quickly back to the forest floor.

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