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    Burying beetles or sexton beetles, genus Nicrophorus, are the best-known members of the family Silphidae (carrion beetles). Most of these beetles are...
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    americanus, also known as the American burying beetle or giant carrion beetle, is a critically endangered species of beetle endemic to North America. It belongs...
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    larvae. Burying beetles are attentive parents, and participate in cooperative care and feeding of their offspring. Both parents work to bury small animal...
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    (gold-necked carrion beetle or tomentose burying beetle) is a species of burying beetle that was described by Friedrich Weber in 1801. The beetle belongs to the...
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    Nicrophorus vespilloides is a burying beetle described by Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst in 1783. The beetles vary widely in size and can present with...
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    pustulatus, also known as the pustulated carrion beetle or blistered burying beetle, is a species of burying beetle that was described by Johann Karl Wilhelm...
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    Silphidae (redirect from Carrion Beetle)
    Silphidae is a family of beetles that are known commonly as large carrion beetles, carrion beetles or burying beetles. There are two subfamilies: Silphinae...
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    carrion are ephemeral habitats that are frequently visited by beetles (dung beetles, burying beetles). Phoretic nematodes (Rhabditoides) and mites (e.g. genera...
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    encroaching female. Infanticide has also been recorded in another insect, the burying beetle Nicrophorus orbicollis. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lethocerus...
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    members. Social immune mechanisms range from the prophylactic, such as burying beetles smearing their carcasses with antimicrobials or termites fumigating...
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    Bird". The New Yorker. 90 (15): 30. 2017 The Burying Beetle Limón, Ada (February 27, 2017). "The Burying Beetle". The New Yorker. 93 (2): 39. Overpass Limón...
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    Nicrophorus vespillo (category Beetles of North America)
    Nicrophorus vespillo is a burying beetle described by Carl Linnaeus in his landmark 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. It has a paleartic distribution...
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    Nicrophorus quadripunctatus (category Beetles of North America)
    is a species of burying beetle that predominates in East Asia. First described by German entomologist Ernst Kraatz in 1877, this beetle has since been...
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  • Irish Whiskey, a product of Proximo Spirits Sexton beetle, alternative name for the burying beetle This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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    Nicrophorus orbicollis (category Beetles of North America)
    burying beetle first described by Thomas Say in 1825. It is a member of the genus Nicrophorus or sexton beetles, comprising the most common beetles in...
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    another by beetles of multiple genera in the family Silphidae, most notably burying beetles. The mite deutonymphs sit on the adult beetles, typically...
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    Nicrophorus marginatus (category Beetles of North America)
    Nicrophorus marginatus is a burying beetle described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1801. Sikes, Derek S.; Madge, Ronald B.; Newton, Alfred F. (29 August...
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    Larry 2009 Fired Up Coach Keith 2009 Couples Retreat Therapist 2010 The Burying Beetle Philip Short film 2011 Bad Teacher Principal Wally Snur 2011 6 Month...
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    Nicrophorini is a tribe of burying beetles or carrion beetles in the subfamily Silphinae. It was formerly treated as subfamily Nicrophorinae within family...
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    Nicrophorus nigrita (category Beetles of North America)
    Nicrophorus nigrita is a burying beetle described by Mannerheim in 1843. data v t e...
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    Dung beetles are beetles that feed on feces. Some species of dung beetles can bury dung 250 times their own mass in one night. Many dung beetles, known...
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  • reproduction more favorable. The burying beetle study also supported the terminal investment hypothesis: the authors found beetles that bred later in life also...
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    Nicrophorus nepalensis (category Beetles of Asia)
    Nicrophorus nepalensis (Chinese: 尼泊爾埋葬蟲 or 橙斑埋葬蟲), commonly known as a burying beetle, is widespread across tropical and subtropical countries in Asia. It...
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  • December 1941) is a British writer known best for children's books. The Burying Beetle made the Branford Boase Award shortlist and The Bower Bird was Costa...
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    Nicrophorus investigator (category Beetles described in 1824)
    Nicrophorus investigator is a burying beetle first described by the Swedish naturalist Johan Wilhelm Zetterstedt in 1824. Sikes, D.S., Barclay, M.V.L....
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    Ablattaria laevigata (category Beetles described in 1775)
    Ablattaria laevigata is a species of burying beetle or carrion beetle belonging to the family Silphidae. Ablattaria laevigata can reach a length of about...
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    beetle, stag beetle, burying beetle or gravediggers, sexton beetle, tiger beetle, bloody nose beetle, tortoise beetle, diving beetle, devil's coach horse...
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  • Nicrophorus hispaniola (category Beetles of North America)
    Nicrophorus hispaniola is a burying beetle described by Sikes and Peck in 2000. It is endemic to the southwestern mountainous Dominican Republic on the...
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  • species found on the South American continent Nicrophorus marginatus, a burying beetle species All pages with titles containing Marginatus This disambiguation...
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  • to: Nicrophorus maritimus, a synonym for Nicrophorus investigator, a burying beetle Nitrosopumilus maritimus, an extremely common archaeon species living...
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