Actually, there's a diverse fauna associated with buffalo chips. In
addition to flies, dung beetles are very, very common in and under chips.
We have a particularly beautiful green species here. A large number of ant
species, including fire ants, utilize buffalo chips. Several bird and
rodent species will pick seeds out of the chips and hungry coyotes will
sometimes gobble up a steaming chip pile.
Aint it amazin' what gets discussed on this list? :)
Rob Denkhaus
Fort Worth Nature Center & Refuge
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