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  2. Nicrophorus americanus - Wikipedia

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    Nicrophorus americanus, also known as the American burying beetle or giant carrion beetle, is a critically endangered species of beetle endemic to North America. [3] It belongs to the order Coleoptera and the family Silphidae. The carrion beetle in North America is carnivorous, feeds on carrion and requires carrion to breed. It is also a member ...

  3. List of U.S. state insects - Wikipedia

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    Oklahoma: European honey bee (state insect) Apis mellifera: 1992 [46] Black swallowtail (state butterfly) Papilio polyxenes: 1996 [46] Oregon: Oregon swallowtail: Papilio oregonius: 1979 [47] Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania firefly: Photuris pennsylvanica: 1974 [48] Rhode Island: American burying beetle: Nicrophorus americanus: 2015 [49] South ...

  4. Burying beetle - Wikipedia

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    Burying beetle life cycle The prospective parents begin to dig a hole below the carcass. While doing so, and after removing all hair from the carcass, the beetles cover the animal with antibacterial and antifungal oral and anal secretions, slowing the decay of the carcass and preventing the smell of rotting flesh from attracting competition. [ 2 ]

  5. Silphidae - Wikipedia

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    Nicrophorus americanus, known as the American burying beetle, is an endangered species. [3] The oldest fossils of silphids are known from the Middle Jurassic (~ 163 million years ago) Daohugou Bed in Northern China. [4] [5] Many Silphidae are flightless although they have wings. This loss is thought to be a result due to the changes in habitat ...

  6. List of critically endangered insects - Wikipedia

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    Click beetle-like fungus weevil (Homoeodera elateroides) Greater fungus weevil (Homoeodera major) Bark beetle-like fungus weevil (Homoeodera scolytoides) Hydrotarsus compunctus; Meladema imbricata; American burying beetle (Nicrophorus americanus) Cromwell chafer beetle (Prodontria lewisi) Propomacrus cypriacus; Thorectes coloni

  7. Nicrophorini - Wikipedia

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    Nicrophorini is a tribe of burying beetles or carrion beetles in the subfamily Silphinae. [1] It was formerly treated as subfamily Nicrophorinae within family Silphidae, but this family was found to be nested in family Staphylinidae in phylogenetic analyses and Silphidae was reassigned as a subfamily Staphylinidae. [2]

  8. A Mexico City neighborhood keeps the iconic Volkswagen Beetle ...

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    Janette Navarro’s 1996 Volkswagen Beetle roars as it barrels up a steep hill overlooking concrete houses stacked like boxes on the outskirts of Mexico City. The Volkswagen Beetle, or “vocho ...

  9. Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/American Burying Beetle

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