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? Orange black beetle. Medicine Hat area

Started By sweetgrass , Aug 11 2019 2:14 PM

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#1 Offline sweetgrass - Posted August 11 2019 - 2:14 PM

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Found this beetle today near Medicine Hat

#2 Offline gcsnelling - Posted August 11 2019 - 2:47 PM

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Nicrophorus

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#3 Offline Acutus - Posted August 12 2019 - 9:37 AM

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Isn't that a type of Carrion Beetle?

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#4 Offline ponerinecat - Posted August 12 2019 - 1:38 PM

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Isn't that a type of Carrion Beetle?

Yes.

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#5 Offline gcsnelling - Posted August 12 2019 - 2:34 PM

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Isn't that a type of Carrion Beetle?

Yes and the genus is Nicrophorus.

#6 Offline sweetgrass - Posted August 12 2019 - 4:54 PM

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Thank you!! I’ll google it now knowing

#7 Offline mbullock42086 - Posted August 19 2019 - 8:00 PM

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fyi this genus is in big trouble so def don't collect these. acaricides are wiping them out by eradicating their symbiotic mites.

people also poison rodents, further harming the genus

#8 Offline MegaMyrmex - Posted August 21 2019 - 12:23 PM

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Oh my God I thought that was Nicrophorus americanus for a second...but yeah, definitely don't keep it. These beetles are a rapidly disappearing species.

Proverbs 6:6-8 New International Version (NIV)

6 Go to the ant, you sluggard;
    consider its ways and be wise!
7 It has no commander,
    no overseer or ruler,
8 yet it stores its provisions in summer
    and gathers its food at harvest.