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

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

Michael Durham / Burying Beetle (Nicrophorus carolinensis) flying, Texas

Nature Production / Burying beetles {Nicrophorus maculifrons} clustering around a dead sparrow, Shiga, Japan

Philippe Clement / Burying / Sexton beetle {Nicrophorus vespillo} next to dead bird, France

Jane Burton / Sexton / Burying Beetle (Nicrophorus vespilloides) on dead Greenfinch, UK.

Jane Burton / Sexton / Burying Beetle lying on its back feigning death. UK, captive.

Kim Taylor / Sexton / Burying Beetles (Nicrophorus vespilloides) on vole carcass, UK, captive

Jane Burton / Sexton / Burying Beetle (Nicrophorus vespilloides) with phoretic mites, UK.

Dietmar Nill / Sexton / Burying beetle {Nicrophorus humator} on dead rodent Germany

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

Mark Moffett / American Burying Beetle (Nicrophorus americanus) female on fur, North America