Fog Catchment Sand Trenches Constructed by Tenebrionid Beetles, Lepidochora , from the Namib Desert
- 6 August 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 193 (4252) , 484-486
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.193.4252.484
Abstract
Three species of coastal Namib Desert tenebrionid beetles (Lepidochora) build trenches on desert sand dunes. Trenches are constructed perpendicular to fog winds and concentrate moisture during fogs. The beetles return along the ridges of the trenches extracting water from them. The water content of a population of these beetles increased by 13.9 percent during one fogThis publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit: