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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. 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 ...

  5. Tallgrass Prairie Preserve - Wikipedia

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    The Joseph H. Williams Tallgrass Prairie Preserve, in Osage County, Oklahoma near Foraker, Oklahoma, is the largest protected tract of tallgrass prairie in the world. . Managed by The Nature Conservancy, the preserve contains 39,650 acres (160 km 2) owned by the Conservancy and another 6,000 acres (24 km 2) leased in what was the original tallgrass region of the Great Plains that stretched ...

  6. List of law enforcement agencies in Oklahoma - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of Oklahoma.. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 483 law enforcement agencies employing 8,639 sworn police officers, about 237 for each 100,000 residents.

  7. Elderly man with cancer seriously injured when cop shoves him ...

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    Lich Vu, 70, was violently thrown onto the pavement during an argument with Oklahoma City Police Department officer Joseph Gibson at the scene of a collision on Oct. 27, troubling footage shared ...

  8. List of law enforcement agencies in Louisiana - Wikipedia

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    According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 348 law enforcement agencies employing 18,050 sworn police officers, about 405 for each 100,000 residents. This is the largest ratio of policemen to residents of any state and compares to a national average of 251 to 100,000.

  9. Trump said of murdered soldier ‘it doesn’t cost $60k to bury ...

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    Donald Trump reportedly declared “it doesn’t cost 60,000 bucks to bury a f***** Mexican” after receiving the bill for a murdered soldier’s funeral which he had previously offered to pay ...