Deer carcass fauna

My lab mates and I pulled up to a field site, and smelled something funny. Turns out there was a decaying deer carcass in the grass. Being entomologists, we had to get a closer look at the insect life.

I have identified the carrion beetle: Oiceoptoma noveboracense. It is in the family Silphidae, the carrion beetles. I observed it attacking, carrying, and eating one of the maggots.

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