Creating a census of the dung beetles of Massachusetts could help inform how to make sure dung beetles keep doing their important work in forests and farming fields.
American burying beetles bring dead animals underground, turn them into preserved meatballs and feed them to their babies.
Then, they pupate in late spring and lay eggs in mid-summer, starting the grub worm life cycle over again. If you have May bugs or June bugs, though, know that these beetles’ grub life cycles ...
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These three specimens of M. sestertia in the collections of the National Museum of Natural History (dorsal, top, and ventral views shown here) were collected in 1936.
Despite the repetition of certain claims on the internet, fig beetles are NOT innocuous. The grubs are deadly. When fig beetle eggs hatch, the grubs/larvae feed on decomposing material.