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...

Chris Mattison / Sexton beetle (Nicrophorus investigator) Drumnadrochit, Inverness, Scotland, UK, August.

MYN / Tim Hunt / Burying beetle (Nicrophorus investigator) Barnt Green, Worcestershire, England, UK, September.

MYN / Edwin Brosens / Burying beetle (Nicrophorus investigator) De Moeren Nature Reseve, Zundert, Netherlands, May. meetyourneighbours.net project

MYN / Edwin Brosens / Burying beetle (Nicrophorus investigator) De Moeren Nature Reseve, Zundert, Netherlands, May. meetyourneighbours.net project

MYN / Edwin Brosens / Burying beetle (Nicrophorus investigator) De Moeren Nature Reseve, Zundert, Netherlands, May. meetyourneighbours.net project

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

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

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...