Tentegia – the world’s only dung-rolling weevils
2022-09-02 06:00 - 07:00 UTC | CDU Casuarina Campus Yellow 1.1.39 and online
One of the largest weevil groups in Australia is the tribe Cryptorhynchini, whose larvae mostly bore in dead wood, but one of its many genera, Tentegia, has instead evolved a life history of developing in marsupial dung pellets, which the flightless weevils roll away into caches under logs and into which lay their eggs
