Beetle - Nicrophorus Vespillo
Taken at Baron's Haugh on 16th May 2023 using Panasonic Lumix TZ70 in macro mode Fact File

Beetle - Nicrophorus Vespillo.
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Local names: 		Nicrophorus Vespillo.
Coleoptera.
Silphidae.
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 		This group of beetles are often referred to as burying beetles because they lay their eggs in the soil close to the dead bodies of small mammals and birds which they bury by excavating the soil from around and beneath the corpse so that it slowly sinks into the ground.
12 - 25 mm.
Wide range throughout Britain
May - September.
They are distinguished from others in the genus by the long golden hairs on the body and wing-cases as well as the orange club-shaped ends of the antennae and the shape of the hind legs.