Researchers found that burying beetle larvae can sense when the mother beetles emit a pheromone, 2-phenoxyethanol, when they are ready to feed their young. It's easy to imagine an adult bird ...

Burying beetles display an unusually intense form of brood care for insects, with both parents tending to their young. They bury the carcass of a small mammal as a food source for the larvae ...

The mice with burying beetle larvae, however, didn’t even smell if you put your face close and took a deep breath. By the time the larvae have finished growing, they have generally consumed the ...

Burying beetles exploit nutrient-rich, but challenging resources for breeding: Their larvae feed on the cadavers of small animals. If untended by these beetles, carcasses are usually taken over by ...

For burying beetles, parenting is a real turnoff. “We were surprised to discover such a chemical communication system that helps to resolve — at least in part — conflicts between both ...

A study of burying beetles has shown that chemical cues allow larvae to distinguish between adults likely to provide food and those that will ignore or attack them. Beetle larvae have an in-built ...

they will cannibalize some of the brood — a brutal but effective method to improve the survival of their surviving larvae. The American burying beetle is the largest of the carrion beetles in ...

American burying beetles, scientifically known as Nicrophorus ... eggs in a small chamber above the carcass. In a few days, the larvae develop; both adults tend to the young, regurgitating food ...

Burying beetles haul mouse carcasses into the dirt ... which are here for bits of mouse to feed their larvae. And there’s this fly, too, looking for a place to lay her eggs.

the beetle joins a mate in burying the carcass, stripping it of fur or feathers, rolling it into a ball, and covering it in oral and anal fluids to preserve it as a shelter and food source for the ...

Burying beetles (Nicrophorus ... After eggs are lain and hatch, the larvae dine on the preserved flesh. This was the known story, but a study now published in Behavioral Ecology suggests that ...