Male burying beetles invest more time and care in their offspring as they age.

While feeding, the parents will protect the young from competitors and other burying beetles.

Adult American burying beetles live for only 12 months.

Similar behavior has been observed in various animals such as rabbits and burying beetles.

Infanticide in burying beetles may have led to male parental care.

Mature males make "better" fathers in burying beetles, a study suggests.

Seriously wounded Erik is dragged away by a burying beetle.

A burying beetle is pictured with its young next to a rat carcass.

Another interesting feature of the burying beetles is the presence of a club.

Historical records offer little insight into what type of habitat was preferred by the American burying beetle.

The burying beetles were of those who exploited the bodies of the fallen.

The female burying beetle lays eggs in the soil around the crypt.

Burying beetles are unusual in that both the male and female take part in raising the young.

Like many other mammals and birds, burying beetles seem to favour elder offspring, the scientists said.

The American burying beetle, which feeds on carrion, can smell death from afar.

Burying beetles are named after the fact they bury small birds and rodents to feed to their young.

Nicrophorus montivagus is a burying beetle described by Lewis in 1887.

Male burying beetles often locate carcasses first and then attract a mate.

The American burying beetle, which uses carcasses as nurseries for its young, gets three times the funding that it did in 1998.

Outside the Hymenoptera, parental care is found among the burying beetles and the magnificent salt beetle.

Another Rosebud project is an environmental study; the American burying beetle is of special concern.

Certain types of burying beetles also disinfect the carrion they use as larval food.

Nicrophorus funerarius may be a species of burying beetle described by Weigel in 1808.

June 21, 2013 - Scientists discovered a new species of burying beetle, Nicrophorus efferens.

They are also referred to as burying beetles because they dig and bury small carcasses underground.

Nicrophorines are sometimes known as sexton beetles.

Burial of a mouse by sexton beetles,Microphorus species.

It is a member of the genus Nicrophorus or sexton beetles, comprising the most common beetles in the family Silphidae.

Burying beetles - also known as sexton beetles - prepare and bury animal carcasses, which they use for breeding, laying eggs and rearing larvae.

Carcases left uneaten attract sexton beetles which bury them extremely quickly and may even move them short distances (Milne & Milne, 1976).

Nicrophorus interruptus is a species of burying beetles or sexton beetles belonging to the family Silphidae subfamily Nicrophorinae.

Burying beetles or sexton beetles (genus Nicrophorus) are the best-known members of the family Silphidae (carrion beetles).

In a very little while they would be buried where no larger carrion-eater would discover them, and then the brightly-colored sexton beetles would begin a banquet to last until only fragments of chitinous armor remained.

He threw open the shutters and saw that three pentads of the garrison, in black resin armor ridged like the carapaces of sexton beetles and kilts of red leather strips, and with burnished metal caps on their heads, were climbing onto their horses.