A black beetle, typically with broad orange bands on its wing cases, which buries small animal carcasses to provide a food store for its larvae.
埋葬虫，葬甲。亦称SEXTON BEETLE
Nicrophorus and other genera, family Silphidae
Also called sexton beetle
Example sentencesExamples
Our work and Suzuki's also suggest that searching burying beetles can respond to the presence of congeners, irrespective of pheromone emission.
There are isolated examples in nature: the American burying beetle watches its larvae, and male fish do the majority of egg guarding and cleaning.
Dental floss was tied to a stake at one end and to the hind leg of the carcass at the other to facilitate locating the carcass after displacement by burying beetles.
Even insect larvae try to get adult attention; immature burying beetles gesticulate at their parents to earn a helping of regurgitated, rotten meat.
Each of the black pots contains a rotting quail carcass covered in soil and swarming with the larvae of American burying beetles.
Definition of burying beetle in US English:
burying beetle
noun
A black beetle that typically has broad orange bands on its wing cases. It buries small animal carcasses to provide a food store for its larvae.
埋葬虫，葬甲。亦称SEXTON BEETLE
Nicrophorus and other genera, family Silphidae
Also called sexton beetle
Example sentencesExamples
Our work and Suzuki's also suggest that searching burying beetles can respond to the presence of congeners, irrespective of pheromone emission.
Even insect larvae try to get adult attention; immature burying beetles gesticulate at their parents to earn a helping of regurgitated, rotten meat.
Each of the black pots contains a rotting quail carcass covered in soil and swarming with the larvae of American burying beetles.
Dental floss was tied to a stake at one end and to the hind leg of the carcass at the other to facilitate locating the carcass after displacement by burying beetles.
There are isolated examples in nature: the American burying beetle watches its larvae, and male fish do the majority of egg guarding and cleaning.