. Elements of zoology, to accompany the field and laboratory study of animals. Zoology. rUE BEETLE 67 The carrion or sexton beetles (Sil'pliidai') include species Avith a great range of size and form. Tlieir reactions to light, moisture, etc., are much like those of the short-wdngcd beetles, but they have taken a farther ste]! away from the normal food. Fig. OS. — Side-view of a staphj'liiiid, elo\'ating its abdomen. of ))eetles in that tlie}' have come to live exclusively upon car- rion. Some of them are heavy-ljodied, with powerful legs. When one or more pairs of these beetles chscover a dea
. Elements of zoology, to accompany the field and laboratory study of animals. Zoology. rUE BEETLE 67 The carrion or sexton beetles (Sil'pliidai') include species Avith a great range of size and form. Tlieir reactions to light, moisture, etc., are much like those of the short-wdngcd beetles, but they have taken a farther ste]! away from the normal food. Fig. OS. — Side-view of a staphj'liiiid, elo\'ating its abdomen. of ))eetles in that tlie}' have come to live exclusively upon car- rion. Some of them are heavy-ljodied, with powerful legs. When one or more pairs of these beetles chscover a dead bird or small mammal on the grounfl, they dig out the earth from underneath and pile it upon the animal until eventually the carcass is enti)'el}' buried. Then the female deposits her eggs upon the , so that a rich suppl\' of food is provided for the young larvte which hatch from the eggs. Another division of the carrion-lseetles are contact-lovers, and accordingly thei;- bodies are much flattened to enable them to penetrate into crevices (Fig. 69). They will often he found under the carcass of an animal on the grounrl. The}' their eggs and the young develop in these same restricted quarters. 1 From silphe, the Grecl^ name of an ill-smelling Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Davenport, Charles Benedict, 1866-1944; Davenport, Gertrude Anna Crotty, 1866- joint author. New York, Macmillan
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