Kim Taylor / Sexton beetle (Nicrophorus vespilloides) taking off showing elytra folded upwards along back and phoretic mites gathered on thorax to where they migrate whenever the beetle prepares for flight, digit...

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

Chris Mattison / Black burying beetle (Nicrophorus humator) on white background Catbrook, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK, May.

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.

John Abbott / Sexton beetle (Nicrophorus pustulatus) flying, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, USA Controlled conditions. July

John Abbott / Sexton beetle (Nicrophorus pustulatus) flying, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, USA Controlled conditions. July

John Abbott / Sexton beetle (Nicrophorus carolinus) in flight, Lamar County, Texas, USA Controlled conditions. July

John Abbott / Sexton beetle (Nicrophorus carolinus), in flight, Lamar County, Texas, USA Controlled conditions. July

John Abbott / Burying beetle (Nicrophorus orbicollis) flying shots taken with high speed flash. Lamar County, Texas, USA Controlled conditions. June

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

Andy Sands / Sexton / Burying Beetle (Nicrophorus vespilloides) rolled onto back showing the Phoretic mites it is carrying, Hertfordshire, England, UK. September