Shit problem

[arauca]

The average cow will drop between 10 and 12 pads of about one litre of dung covering 0.82 square metres every day – and each one has the capacity to produce up to 3,000 flies within a fortnight.

Besides facilitating the excessive and unnatural abundance of bush flies in Australian farmland, large volumes of dung left unburied and unprocessed can remain for up to four years – its natural fertilisers locked up inside forever and wasted, or ending up in nearby waterways. Cattle will not graze near their own faeces, and accumulated dung can prevent the growth of vegetation, so large areas of dung-covered pasture can remain ungrazed for up to two years. Combined with the damage caused by large numbers of parasitic flies, this costs the cattle industry hundreds of millions of dollars every year.

The introduction of cattle to Australia with European settlement has brought with it the significant challenge of managing the accumulation of dung, because while we have around 400 species of native dung beetle, they are used to breaking down the dry, fibrous and pelletised droppings of marsupials such as kangaroos, wallabies and wombats. They can’t cope with the enormous volumes of dung produced by introduced livestock each day, so between 1969 and 1987, and again from 1990 to 1992, scientists from the national Australian science agency, the CSIRO, shipped in a range of exotic dung beetle species to address this problem. More recently, CSIRO scientists led by entomologists Jane Wright and Keith Wardhaugh, have introduced two species of European dung beetle to “finish the job”, according to a report released on the May 31 this year.

http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/featur...5803/on-a-roll



The average cow will drop between 10 and 12 pads of about one litre of dung covering 0.82 square metres every day – and each one has the capacity to produce up to 3,000 flies within a fortnight.

Can you imagine the size of a dinosaurs, If there would not be any beetles , they would crap themselves to extinction.

[youreyes]

from the size comparison, the largest dinosaur would make lots of crap, 10 times the volume of crap that a cow makes.

[Jeeves]

Of course, nobody was breeding the dinosaurs: they had to take their chances with nature and multiply only as much as the ecosystem could bear.

How about eating less meat? Or none - that would also cut down significantly on heart disease in humans.

[youreyes]

Of course, nobody was breeding the dinosaurs: they had to take their chances with nature and multiply only as much as the ecosystem could bear.

How about eating less meat? Or none - that would also cut down significantly on heart disease in humans.

Actually most shit is generated from the fibers in the plants, so cutting down on meat would mean more veggies = more shit. Also what does decrease in heart disease in humans has to do with amount of shit generated during dinosaur era in a hypothetical scenario of no beetles?

[GeoffP]

The average cow will drop between 10 and 12 pads of about one litre of dung covering 0.82 square metres every day – and each one has the capacity to produce up to 3,000 flies within a fortnight.

Besides facilitating the excessive and unnatural abundance of bush flies in Australian farmland, large volumes of dung left unburied and unprocessed can remain for up to four years – its natural fertilisers locked up inside forever and wasted, or ending up in nearby waterways. Cattle will not graze near their own faeces, and accumulated dung can prevent the growth of vegetation, so large areas of dung-covered pasture can remain ungrazed for up to two years. Combined with the damage caused by large numbers of parasitic flies, this costs the cattle industry hundreds of millions of dollars every year.

The introduction of cattle to Australia with European settlement has brought with it the significant challenge of managing the accumulation of dung, because while we have around 400 species of native dung beetle, they are used to breaking down the dry, fibrous and pelletised droppings of marsupials such as kangaroos, wallabies and wombats. They can’t cope with the enormous volumes of dung produced by introduced livestock each day, so between 1969 and 1987, and again from 1990 to 1992, scientists from the national Australian science agency, the CSIRO, shipped in a range of exotic dung beetle species to address this problem. More recently, CSIRO scientists led by entomologists Jane Wright and Keith Wardhaugh, have introduced two species of European dung beetle to “finish the job”, according to a report released on the May 31 this year.

http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/featur...5803/on-a-roll



The average cow will drop between 10 and 12 pads of about one litre of dung covering 0.82 square metres every day – and each one has the capacity to produce up to 3,000 flies within a fortnight.

Can you imagine the size of a dinosaurs, If there would not be any beetles , they would crap themselves to extinction.

Plow it into the ground?

[Jeeves]

Yabbut, he's apparently on about dinosaur shit. There was nobody to plough it into the ground, just as there was nobody to artificially overbreed the dinosaurs or to import dung-beetles. Had there been no dung beetles, maybe the dinosaurs would have become extinct when the manure totally covered the vegetation they needed for sustenance (which had all the fiber in it already, so it would have produced shit even without going through the dinosaur digestive process - ? not sure i got that bit right); ie, even before the putative asteroid hit. And that would have been a tragedy. For the dinosaurs. And we probably wouldn't know anything about it, because there is a good chance that our remote ancestor would have been underneath the dinosaur feces. Diet-food for thought.

[Crunchy Cat]

Lol @ this thread.

[arauca]

Lol @ this thread.

Pall it is not the fantasy if space and Bs theory it is the true life. I don't know the city were you live, but if we would not have a shit processing technology who know if you would be alive , Have you read why Chicago diverted the river , if not have a pick

[youreyes]

shit is part of our lives, so we have to make amends with it.

[Jeeves]

Guess we need either a lot more beetles or fewer vegetarians.

[youreyes]

Guess we need either a lot more beetles or fewer vegetarians.

Actually the centipedes do just as great job in terms of collecting shit, especially where vegetarians reside.

"Invasion of Centipedes in Indian Village" link: http://www.theasian.asia/?p=24837