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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Staphyliniformia » Staphylinoidea » Carrion Beetles (Silphidae) » Necrophila » American Carrion Beetle (Necrophila americana)
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I don't understand what it is doing, any thoughts? - Necrophila americana
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I don't understand what it is doing, any thoughts? - Necrophila americana
Tracys Landing, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, USA
June 11, 2014
Necrophila americana - American Carrion Beetle is climbing up a plant on a beach on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay. It approaches some pea aphids in this photo. In the next photo it has decided it was not interested in the pea aphids, but continues to climb the plant. Why continue up a plant if you eat carrion?

Maybe it could smell better from higher up on the plant?

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I don't understand what it is doing, any thoughts? - Necrophila americana I don't understand what it is doing, any thoughts? - Necrophila americana
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Contributed by eaglebeach on 5 March, 2019 - 4:45pm

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