# Day 3 - Dung beetles & prehistoric cowpats

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Podcast: [Farm Gate](https://stenobird.com/podcast/farm-gate-22420)
Published: 2026-07-05T05:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

Day 3 of our 10 More Days of Groundswell series, which continues every day for 10 days.I meet Sally-Ann Spence down in the Groundswell fields as we sift through cowpats and discuss the role of entomology in archeology.

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