Nicrophorus beetles often carry on their bodies the mite Poecilochirus which feed on fly eggs.

Burying beetles or sexton beetles ( genus Nicrophorus ) are the best-known members of the family Silphidae ( carrion beetles ).

The Nicrophorus americanus, known as the American Burying Beetle, is an endangered species.

* Nicrophorus americanus is located from Florida to east Texas up through Michigan, and sometimes in southeastern Canada.

It is 30 – 35 mm long, making it the largest of the genus Nicrophorus.

* Nicrophorus carolinus is noted for having a very narrow pronotum that is black and shiny on the anterior portion, yet dull on the posterior portion.

* Nicrophorus investigator varies widely in color, but is noted for having a wide pronotum.

* Nicrophorus marginatus has a glossy black pronotum with orange hairs located behind the head.

* Nicrophorus orbicollis is known for having elongated black pronotum and short black elytra with two rows of orange spots.

* Nicrophorus tomentosus is the easiest species to distinguish of Silphidae due to its small size of about 15 mm and dense gold hairs on its pronotum.

Nicrophorus vespilloides colonizing a dead rodent.

Nicrophorus vespilloides are closely associated with the nematode parasite.

there are 68 valid, extant species in the genus Nicrophorus although a few undescribed species and synonyms remain to be worked up.

Nicrophorus americanus, also known as the ; the IUCN lists the species as critically endangered.

* U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, American burying beetle ( Nicrophorus americanus )

Dr. Baekeland had originally set out to find a replacement for shellac, made from the excretion of lac beetles.

More recent theories, noting the presence of blood vessels in the skull bones of ceratopsids, find it more probable that these features were primarily used in identification, courtship and dominance displays, much like the antlers and horns of modern reindeer, mountain goats, or rhinoceros beetles.

Their diet is omnivorous: they take a range of saps and exudates, lerps, and a high proportion of arthropods which they find under the loose bark of eucalypts: spiders, crickets, beetles, and the like.

" His first objective was to find a replacement for shellac ( made from the excretion of lac beetles ).

Following the larval and pupal stage, adult ambrosia beetles collect masses of fungal spores into their mycangia and leave the gallery to find their own tree.

In doing so, the philodendron provides male beetles a more efficient way to find females than what they could achieve on their own.

The beetles may be using scent to find the inflorescence when they are far away, but once within range, they find it by means of the infrared radiation.

Other dung beetles, known as tunnelers, bury the dung wherever they find it.

It is one of the best places in Britain to find insects such as moths, bees and beetles, and spiders ; many of these are very rare, some found nowhere else in Britain.

Adult beetles are omnivorous, being known to consume small arthropods, pollen, fungi, and whatever else they can find.

Dr. Baekeland had originally set out to find a replacement for shellac ( made from the excretion of lac beetles ).

Because of this tendency, the adult beetles will postpone, or delay pupation in an effort to maintain their safety and find a safe pupation site.

The larvae of Hister beetles feed on the blowfly pupae found on the body .< ref >" Hister beetles-Family Histeridae.

Pests include club root, root-knot nematodes and cabbage maggots, which cause stunted and wilted plants with yellow leaves ; aphids, which cause stunted plants with curled and yellow leaves ; harlequin bugs, which cause white and yellow leaves ; thrips, which cause leaves with white-bronze spots ; striped flea beetles, which riddle leaves with small holes ; and caterpillars, which leave behind large, ragged holes in leaves.

Many invertebrates like the burying beetles, as well as maggots of calliphorid flies and Flesh-flies also eat carrion, playing an important role in recycling nitrogen and carbon in animal remains.

In some places they are mainly scavengers, feeding on carrion as well as the associated maggots and carrion beetles.

Certain species of the Hister beetles follow shortly behind and prey on the maggots and other arthropods present.

They are predacious beetles and arrive when there is material to feed on, like other beetles or maggots.

The grubs are eaten by mammals including skunks and raccoons, and soil-dwelling arthropods, including centipedes, ground beetles, spiders and the maggots of Mydas flies.

In captivity the Green and Golden Bell Frog is known to feed on crickets, fruit flies, maggots, silkworms, domestic flies, beetles, mealworms, larvae, slaters, cockroaches, molluscs, plague locusts, spiders, water snails, earthworms and mice.

Ingestion of blister beetles from infested hay causes similar serious toxic symptoms in animals.

Some manufacturers treat the wood chips with various borate compounds which are toxic to termites, wood boring beetles, molds, and fungi, but not mammals in applied doses.

Common North American pests include the potato beetles, flea beetles, aphids, and spider mites.

The insect species commonly found in the river corridor and tributaries are midges, caddis flies, mayflies, stoneflies, black flies, mites, beetles, butterflies, moths, and fire ants.

Since discovery by humans, numerous species have been introduced to the island, some deliberately, like the casurina, the feral pig, the Cardinal ( Cardinalis cardinalis ), anoles, ladybird beetles, and the Kiskadee, some incidentally, like the Norwegian rat ( Rattus norvegicus ) and the Black Rat ( Rattus rattus ), and the others accidentally, like the scale mites, and the brown widow spider ( Latrodectus geometricus ).

This concerns mainly arthropods, examples of which are mites on insects ( such as beetles, flies or bees ), pseudoscorpions on mammals or beetles, and millipedes on birds.

Other useful garden predators include lacewings, pirate bugs, rove and ground beetles, aphid midge, centipedes, spiders, predatory mites, as well as larger fauna such as frogs, toads, lizards, hedgehogs,

( against beetles, locusts and grasshoppers, Hemiptera, spider mites and other pests )

They may sometimes be found feeding on mites under the wing covers of certain beetles.

In the caves there is a host of interesting underground animals such as crabs, mites, Nematodes, aquatic worms, spiders, pseudoscorpion, beetles and bats.

One group of small, dark-coloured lady beetles ( Stethorus species ) are specialised predators of spider mites.

The typical diet of a mature Corroboree frog includes ; beetles, mites, ants and insect larvae.

Chimonanthus plants are frequently subject to attacks from aphids, and may be attacked by mites and leaf beetles.

These pests include slugs, moths, fruit flies, chafers, strawberry root weevils, strawberry thrips, strawberry sap beetles, strawberry crown moth, mites, aphids, and others.

The coarse outer coat is usually inhabited by algae, mites, ticks, beetles, and moths.