Dung beetles are an important part of the eco-system, often described as eco-system engineers, the small creatures recycle manure.
In Australia, there are about 500 native species of dung beetles but they only eat or have adapted to marsupial species so they cannot be used for sheep or cattle dung.
The CSIRO have been importing dung beetles to control sheep and cattle dung for the past 50 years and have been running a national breeding program to try and establish dung beetles year round.
CSIRO lead of dung beetle importation doctor Valerie Caron said dung beetles were everywhere in the world except Antartica.
"We have beautiful dung beetles in Australia but not the right ones to control cattle and sheep dung," she said.
"Forty-three species have been introduced and 23 species are established, they have done a great job in reducing the amount of dung on the surface.
"You get better nutrient cycling and reduction in water pollution (when your pasture if full of dung and there is a rain storm it will all go down river).
"They have done a great job but there is still a lack in activity, we do not have dung beetles for every time of the year and every region of Australia.
"What we would like to do is to get the right beetles to fill those gaps."
Through its national program, the CSIRO has imported three new species of dung beetles which would seal the Spring gap in all of southern Australia from WA to Tasmania.
Dr Caron said in Spring and Summer there were no dung beetles doing their job.
"They have a short activity time and there is nothing here that could do the job, we now have three species which can fill that gap."
One of those species is now being bred in WA after going through a long and difficult importation process from Morocco and France.
South West farmer and Cambray Cheese owner Bruce Wilde has been breeding dung beetles on his farm for many years.
Mr Wilde said dung beetles provided many benefits which included improving the soil and pasture quality, as well as, reducing the number of flies on his property.
One species Mr Wilde established on his farm is called bubas bison, which can dig down two-feet through compacted soil.
"A normal dung beetle as I have previously known them just makes a mess of cow dung, and leaves it on the ground," he said.
"These bison dig up to two feet deep, they are 600 millimetres, they are amazing how they can get into soil which is super compacted.
"Down the track the possibilities are endless if these dung beetles can get down two-feet deep."
In 2004, Mr Wilde started a sheep dairy and used to milk with fly nets on the sheep because the flies were so thick.
"The sheep's backs used to be black with flies so I installed fans on the ramp where they came up to blow the flies off so they would not get into the milk or cups," he said.
"These dung beetles are playing havoc with the flies to the extent that we do not see flies on the sheeps' backs, hardly at all.
"This is one of the reasons why I want to establish different types of dung beetles so they could have them on a 12 month cycle.
"At the moment the bison breed are active from the first rains until the last of the green in mid-December and the bubalus are similar.
"If we can get these dung beetles year round it will make everybody's life so much easier as far as the farming community goes.
"Hopefully they extend the breeding program and extend the cycle of dung beetles, we need to work on getting them year round on a 12 monthly basis.
"If we ever get that we will be laughing, it is a win-win as far as farming goes."
For more information about the dung beetle project visit dungbeetles.com.au/.