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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Longhorn, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Rove, Carrion and Fungus Beetles (Staphylinoidea) » Carrion Beetles (Silphidae) » Sexton Beetles (Nicrophorus) » Nicrophorus orbicollis
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Came to blacklight 4 - Nicrophorus orbicollis
Copyright © 2009 Celeste

Came to blacklight 4 - Nicrophorus orbicollis
Starved Rock State Park, Illinois, USA
May 30, 2009
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Contributed by Celeste on 5 June, 2009 - 7:39pm
Last updated 14 September, 2009 - 11:15am

Moved
Moved from Sexton Beetles.
… Guy A. Hanley, 14 September, 2009 - 11:15am login or register to post comments

Nice find.
This is a "burying beetle" or "sexton beetle" in the genus Nicrophorus, family Silphidae. Please see guide page for fascinating life history info. These are relatively common beetles, but seen very infrequently. I've seen a grand total of about 6 in 30+ years of looking for insects.
… Eric R. Eaton, 5 June, 2009 - 9:00pm login or register to post comments

 
I've seen
about a million of them in our urban forest survey traps
… Guy A. Hanley, 14 September, 2009 - 11:15am login or register to post comments

 
and I have found a total of 60
in a pit trap with three drowned mice in it (-:
But seriously, they congregate on small dead bodies but only in climates moister than most of the Sonoran Desert where Eric spent the last years.
… margarethe brummermann, 6 June, 2009 - 12:56pm login or register to post comments

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