Kim Taylor / Sexton beetle (Nicrophorus vespilloides) taking off showing elytra folded upwards along back and phoretic mites gathered on thorax to where they migrate whenever the beetle prepares for flight, digit...

Mark Moffett / Burying Beetle (Nicrophorus orbicollis) recycles a dead rat by laying eggs near its body then feeding larvae bits of regurgitated carcass

Piotr Naskrecki / Sexton Beetle (Nicrophorus sp) with aposematic coloration, Nakanai Mountains, New Britain, Papua New Guinea

Alex Hyde / Burying beetles (Nicrophorus investigator) two on dead squirrel foot, Peak District National Park, Derbyshire, UK, September.

Piotr Naskrecki / Tomentose Burying Beetle (Nicrophorus tomentosus) with aposematic coloration, Woburn, Massachusetts

Piotr Naskrecki / Tomentose Burying Beetle (Nicrophorus tomentosus), Woburn, Massachusetts

Paul Hobson / Sexton beetle (Nicrophorus investigator) on dead Pheasant (Phasianus sp), UK, July

Paul Hobson / Sexton beetle (Nicrophorus investigator) on dead Pheasant (Phasianus sp), UK, July

Nature Production / Burying beetles (Nicrophorus japonicus) on left and (Nicrphorus concolor) on right, feeding on dead mole, Japan

Nature Production / Burying beetle (Nicrophorus concolor) feeding on dead mole, Japan

Nature Production / Burying beetle (Nicrophorus japonicus) feeding on dead mole, Japan

Andy Sands / Sexton / Burying Beetle (Nicrophorus vespilloides) on dead rabbit with mites, Upper Teesdale, Co. Durham, England, UK, June