Chris Mattison / Black burying beetle (Nicrophorus humator) on white background Catbrook, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK, May.
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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...
Andy Sands / Sexton / Burying Beetle (Nicrophorus vespilloides) rolled onto back showing the Phoretic mites it is carrying, Hertfordshire, England, UK. September