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Family Silphidae - Carrion Beetles
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Family Silphidae - Carrion Beetles
Robertson, Madison County, Old Rag Mountain Trail County, Virginia, USA
August 22, 2004
Found along the Old Rag Mountain trail of Shenandoah National Park on the carcass of a dead skunk.

Maybe Nicrophorus tomentosus - Tomentose Burying Beetle? Dense yellow hair on pronotum on many of them. Absence of orange clubbed antennae along with the more circular posterior spots. Possibly covering the skunk with debris rather than burying it.
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Contributed by eaglebeach on 15 March, 2019 - 5:55pm
Last updated 4 August, 2020 - 8:52am

N. tomentosus indeed, at least most of them
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Moved from Carrion Beetles.
… v belov, 4 August, 2020 - 8:52am login or register to post comments

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