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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Series Staphyliniformia » Rove, Carrion and Fungus Beetles (Staphylinoidea) » Carrion Beetles (Silphidae) » Sexton Beetles (Nicrophorus) » Tomentose Burying Beetle (Nicrophorus tomentosus)
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Rove bug? with mites - Nicrophorus tomentosus
Copyright © 2017 alwen

Rove bug? with mites - Nicrophorus tomentosus
Allegan County, Michigan, USA
October 3, 2017
Size: ~25mm
This large black beetle-y thing buzzed me in the house. When captured it emitted a rank smell, like musty rotting meat, and I noticed it was covered with some kind of mites.

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Contributed by alwen on 3 October, 2017 - 9:00pm
Last updated 3 October, 2017 - 10:08pm

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Moved from ID Request.

Musty, rotting meat is the dinner of choice!

The mites are more than likely phoretic, hitching a ride to next carcass.
… Jeff Brown, 3 October, 2017 - 10:08pm login or register to post comments

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