Collie Ennis

So their life cycle depends on the poo ball and their baby eating it and then coming out as an adult.

So anyway, the Australian dung beetles are smelling all this cow shit and they're landing and they're drowning because it's not the marsupial dry shit.

So what happened then was there was nothing around to bury the cow pads.

And there was Australians who couldn't go out to have a beer outside because there were so many flies.

The flies just multiplied and it was a massive problem.

So I think he was a Hungarian scientist.

He came up with the idea of, right, we're going to have to sort something out in Australia.

So he went to Africa.

And he picked out every kind of dung beetle you could imagine from over there.

And he systematically tested with very scientific methodology, not like the cane toad.

He didn't just put them out there.

He really tested his theory and tried out different species.

And eventually he found a few species that he could let go.

they started going around burying all the cowshit and the Beatles saved the population of Australia from disease, from all sorts of horrendous conditions of flies just taking over the country.

Get rid of it.

That is amazing.

So the beetles came in and rescued it, but thanks to a crazy Hungarian, I think he was Hungarian, but anyway, scientist over there.

And like, it goes to show, like, if you're careful about putting invasive species, not invasive, potentially invasive species into an area to solve a problem.

Nowadays, we call it nature-based solution.

So say for a species of plant like rhododendron or for Japanese knotweed, which people have big problems with.