Burying beetle (Nicrophorus interruptus) on the carcass of a dead mole. Burying beetles have large club-like antennae equipped with black and reddish

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Burying beetle (Nicrophorus interruptus) on the carcass of a dead mole. Burying beetles have large club-like antennae equipped with black and reddish tips containing chemoreceptors, capable of detecting a dead animal from a long way away. They search out and bury the carcasses of small vertebrates such as birds and mice as a food source for their larvae.

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