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Carrion insects on dead vole, including greenbottle flies, flesh fly, rove beetle, dermestes beetle and American carrion beetle Carrion insects are insects associated with decomposing remains. The processes of decomposition begin within a few minutes of death. [ 1 ]
A black garden ant (Lasius niger) engaging in necrophoresis. Necrophoresis is a sanitation behavior found in social insects – such as ants, bees, wasps, and termites – in which they carry away the dead bodies of members of their colony from the nest or hive area.
Bibionidae (March flies) is a family of flies containing approximately 650–700 species worldwide.Adults are nectar feeders and emerge in numbers in spring. Because of the likelihood of adult flies being found in copula, they have earned colloquial names such as "love bugs" or "honeymoon flies".
A diagram of the stylostome, or the hardened tube of dead cells formed by the larval form of the Trombiculidae when feeding. Chiggers attach to the host, pierce the skin, inject enzymes into the bite wound that digest cellular contents, [ 23 ] and then suck up the digested tissue through a tube formed by hardened skin cells called a stylostome ...
A Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana) playing dead A barred grass snake (Natrix helvetica) playing dead. Apparent death [a] is a behavior in which animals take on the appearance of being dead. It is an immobile state most often triggered by a predatory attack and can be found in a wide range of animals from insects and crustaceans to ...
Asbolus verrucosus (LeConte, 1852), [2] also known as the desert ironclad beetle or blue death feigning beetle, is a species of darkling beetle native to southwestern United States (southern California to Utah and New Mexico) and northwestern Mexico, where it inhabits dry, sandy habitats such as the Sonoran and Mojave Deserts. [3]
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Ceratopogonidae is a family of flies commonly known as no-see-ums, or biting midges, generally 1–3 millimetres (1 ⁄ 16 – 1 ⁄ 8 in) in length. The family includes more than 5,000 species, [2] distributed worldwide, apart from the Antarctic and the Arctic.