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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.
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 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 ...
Odontotaenius disjunctus Image of Odontotaenius disjunctus (Illiger, 1800), collected from a wood shed in Haddock, GA. Scale bar represents 1 cm. [1] Odontotaenius disjunctus, the patent-leather beetle or horned passalus, is a saproxylic beetle in the family Passalidae (bess beetles) which can grow to just over an inch-and-a-half long, weigh 1-2 grams and are capable of pulling 50 times their ...
Reduvius personatus or the masked hunter is an insect belonging to the assassin bug (Reduviidae) family. The name is because its nymphs camouflage themselves with dust. The masked hunter is a predator of small arthropods, including woodlice, lacewings, earwigs, bed bugs and termites. [1]
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The Phasmatodea (also known as Phasmida or Phasmatoptera) are an order of insects whose members are variously known as stick insects, stick bugs, walkingsticks, stick animals, or bug sticks. They are also occasionally referred to as Devil's darning needles , although this name is shared by both dragonflies and crane flies. [ 1 ]
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