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

Emanuele Biggi / Beetles (Omorgus costatus) and cockroaches, on guano pile with a dead swift chick. Deer Cave, Gunung Mulu National Park, Sarawak, Malaysia.

MYN / Lily Kumpe / Carcass Beetle (Omorgus Sp) Plutonic Gold Mine, Meekatharra Shire, Gascoyne Bioregion, Western Australia. Meetyourneighbtous.net project

Andy Sands / Sexton / Burying Beetle (Nicrophorus vespilloides) on dead rabbit with mites, 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

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

Christian Ziegler / Birthwort (Aristolochia sp) attracts Dung Beetles (Scarabaeinae) and flies with smell mimicking dead carcass, in return these animals aid in pollination, Panama

Piotr Naskrecki / Weevil parasitized by Gill Mushroom (Stilbella buquetii), Costa Rica

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

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

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

Paul Bertner / True Weevil (Curculionidae) infected and killed by Fungus (Ophiocordyceps sp), Sani Lodge, Ecuador