Chris Mattison / Sexton beetle (Nicrophorus investigator) on a dead mouse. Drumnadrochit, Inverness, Scotland, UK, August. (The mites that can be seen are using the beetle to carry them to food; they do not parasitise...
Alex Hyde / Sexton / Burying Beetle (Nicrophorus investigator) photographed on a white background in mobile field studio. This species feeds on carrion. A small vertebrate corpse such as a vole will be buried as...