Posts Tagged: burying beetles
Doctoral Candidate Tracie Hayes to Lend Expertise on Burying Beetles at Bohart Open House
If you're a burying beetle, you bury a small carcass, such as a mouse, and use it as a food source...
This is a carrion beetle, genus Heterosilpha. (Screen shot from Tracie Hayes' video)
The Bohart Museum of Entomology's family crafts activity will be to color Tracie Hayes' drawing of a carrion beetle, genus Heterosilpha. (Art by Tracie Hayes)
'Beetle Mania' at the Bohart Museum of Entomology on Jan. 22
There's "Beatlemania" and then there's "Beetle Mania." One involved the fanaticism directed at the...
The burying beetle is known for burying carcasses of small vertebrates, such as mice, squirrels and birds, and using them as a food source for its larvae. (Photo courtesy of Wikipedia)
A dung beetle with two balls of dung. (Photo courtesy of Wikipedia)
Beetles! Bohart Museum Open House Set Sunday, Jan. 22
Beetles! And with an exclamation point! That's the theme of the Bohart Museum of Entomology...
This is a burying beetle, Nicrophorus germanicus. It buries the carcasses of small vertebrae and uses them as a food source for its larva. (Photo courtesy of Wikipedia)
A multicolored Asian beetle and her eggs. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A dung beetle with two ball of dung. (Photo courtesy of Wikipedia)