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Startled a Burying Beetle (Nicrophorus vespilloides) that had been chilling under a bit of dead pheasant.
Not the greatest of pics, cos I wasn’t expecting the beetle and it sure wasn’t expecting me. It disappeared into the moss here fairly quickly.
The pic shows the beetle, sorta, along with a couple of little brown phoretic mites clinging to it. They have a mutual relationship where the mites travel with the beetle, and eat fly eggs and larva on whatever carrion they find, so there is less competition for food for the beetle larva.
Wish I had been able to get a better pic of it before it scurried deep into the moss, but I’m not gonna tear up a bed of moss to find it. It’s pretty unusual habitat around here, so it should be preserved if possible.
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Phoresy: mites hitchhiking on burying beetles
Nicrophorus vespillo Linnaeus, 1758, infested with Poecilichirus mites, Denmark (Donald Hobern, Flickr CC)
Phoresy, which is also called phoresis, is an association between two organisms, where one travels on the body of another, without being a parasite or causing it any harm. In this case, the hitchhiker is a mite, which attaches itself to a beetle, solely for the purpose of travel (above). The…
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#Burying beetles#Common Sexton Beetle#Nicrophorus spp.#Nicrophorus vespilloides#phoresis#phoresy#Poecilochirus#Poecilochirus carabi#Poecilochirus mite#Sexton beetles
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Common Sexton Beetle (Nicrophorus vespilloides). ‘The undertakers of the animal world.’ A sexton is a person who looks after a churchyard, typically a gravedigger. These beetles have a similar role interring the dead. They’re known as a ‘burying beetles’ because after they have found a dead animal, such as a small bird or rodent, they bury the corpse, lay their eggs on it, and then continue to feed their larvae on the decaying flesh after they’ve hatched. You can see in this photograph two red spider mites attached to the beetle’s back. This is a common site on Sexton Beetles. The mites have the same lifespan as the beetle and often spend their entire lives together. Glenfeshie Estate, Cairngorms, July 2020. SP
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How beetle larvae thrive on carrion
The burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides buries the cadavers of small animals to use them as a food source for its offspring. However, the carcass is susceptible to microbial decomposition. Researchers show that the beetles replace harmful microorganisms with their own beneficial gut symbionts, thus turning a carcass into a nursery with a microbial community that even promotes larval growth.
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How beetle larvae thrive on carrion
The burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides buries the cadavers of small animals to use them as a food source for its offspring. However, the carcass is susceptible to microbial decomposition. Researchers show that the beetles replace harmful microorganisms with their own beneficial gut symbionts, thus turning a carcass into a nursery with a microbial community that even promotes larval growth.
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How beetle larvae thrive on carrion The burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides buries the cadavers of small animals to use them as a food source for its offspring.
#beetle#carrion#larvae#Quantum Physics; Albert Einstein; Optics; Physics; Tsunamis; Natural Disasters; Weather; Wildfires#thrive
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How beetle larvae thrive on carrion
The burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides buries the cadavers of small animals to use them as a food source for its offspring. However, the carcass is susceptible to microbial decomposition. Researchers show that the beetles replace harmful microorganisms with their own beneficial gut symbionts, thus turning a carcass into a nursery with a microbial community that even promotes larval growth.
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Sexton beetle (Nicrophorus vespilloides) [2560x1707] [OC]
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Back From Scotland!
An Adventurer Was Me!
Here’s just a few samples from my massive photo haul! I will post more later!
Xylota segnis! (Brown-toed Forest Fly - possibly a robot)
Anoplotrupes stercorosus! (Woodland Dor Beetle - shiny blue legs and pleasantly round)
Sericomyia superbiens! (A Drone Fly That Looks Exactly Like Some Nearby Bumble Bees! So big and fluffy!)
Bufo bufo! (European Toad - tiny anger unit)
Genus Araneus! (Orbweaver - tiny eyes and cool tats)
Nicrophorus vespilloides! (Boreal Sexton Beetle + Mites - eats mushrooms, a good boy)
Aglais io! (European Peacock Butterfly - looks like poker chips, would bet on black)
#Aglais io#Nicrophorus vespilloides#Araneus#Bufo bufo#Sericomyia superbiens#Anoplotrupes stercorosus#Xylota segnis#Homo sapiens#inaturalist#naturalist#bugblr#insects#beetles#butterflies#toads#flies#spiders#arachnids#arthropods#scotland#wildlife
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#nicrophorus#vespilloides#silphidae#insecta#hexapoda#arthropoda#animaila#sorex araneus#soricidae#soricomorpha#mammaila#vertebrata#death#gif#exercising
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Decomposition of a mole
Decomposition of a mole
Common flesh flies (Sarcophaga carnaria) on mole carcass.
I came across a dead mole as I was walking along a logging tract in a pine forest in Galicia, northern Spain. It looked as though it had only just died, as the first wave of colonisation – by blow flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) – was only just in progress.
Dead mole with green bottle flies.
Green bottle flies (probably Lucilia sericata)…
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#Burying beetles#Common flesh flies#Galicia#Green bottle flies#Nicrophorus vespilloides#Oiceoptoma thoracica#Poecilochirus carabi#Sarcophaga carnaria#Sexton beetles#Spain#symbiosis
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In honor of Father’s Day, here’s a very special SCIENCE SUNDAY.
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Burying Beetle - Nicrophorus vespilloides, by timz501 “I became, and the becoming became. I became by becoming the form of Khepra, god of transformations, who came into being in the First Time. Through me all transformations were enacted.” Scotland's scarabs: Nicrophorus vespilloides. The fly and burying beetle are two of my sacred companions, I exalt and am inspired by their tireless task of rot'n'resurrection.
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THE MOST HALLOWEENEST BEETLE OF THEM ALL.
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