Necrophorus

With his expeditious method, the Necrophorus is the first of the little purifiers of the fields.

The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

She seems to have hired a sexually ambiguous associate named Necrophorus, of all things, who serves as some kind of sour commentator.

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As to the beetles, we have quite well-observed facts of mutual help amidst the burying beetles (Necrophorus).

Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin 1881

The Necrophorus must assume the adult form in the course of the summer; like the

The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

Necrophorus the best part of his fame and, to begin with, submit the case related by Clairville, that of the too hard soil and the call for assistance, to the test of experiment.

The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

The difficulties of inhumation are capable of such variety as causes us already to foresee that the Necrophorus cannot employ fixed methods in performing his task.

The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

This murderous frenzy, breaking out late in life, is not peculiar to the Necrophorus.

The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

In short, the Necrophorus has no exclusive preferences; anything putrid he conveys underground.

The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

Necrophorus certainly possesses another art: the art of breaking the cables, the roots, the stolons, the slender rhizomes which check the body's descent into the grave.

The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

Well, in two and a half months of captivity, despite long stays at the base of the trellis, at a depth of three-quarters of an inch beneath the surface, it is rare indeed for a Necrophorus to succeed in circumventing the obstacle, in prolonging his excavation beneath the barrier, in digging an elbow and bringing it out on the other side, a trifling task for these vigorous creatures.

The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean-Henri Fabre 1869