Dr George Bornemissza with dung beetle specimens

Dr George Bornemissza, a Hungarian entomologist, arrived in Australia in 1950. He was amazed to see huge amounts of unburied cow dung lying in paddocks, which was polluting grazing land and breeding flies. Bornemissza suggested bringing in dung beetles from overseas to tackle this problem. From the 1960s Bornemissza led the Australian Dung Beetle Project, which successfully introduced several species of dung beetle to Australia.