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Dear All, Aug 26, 2008
Today while hauling firewood, I found a large attractive Carrion
Beetle (Necrophila americana (L)) in a pile of Populus grandidentata
that was cut, split and piled in 2007. It was quite at ease with having
been exposed, sitting with antennae splayed foreward and not moving at
all and remained equally calm when I moved it to a post top. More than 5
minutes later it moved away and presumably flew.
I have previously seen this species only once, on freshly split dead
Populus tremuloides (Sept 24, 2004) about 150 paces SE.
And on Aug 17, 2008 I found Nicrophorus pustulatus Herschel (another
large Barrion Beetle) in a nearby pile of White Ash firewood that was
cut live Jan 2008.
Like gold and everything else, Carrion Beetles are where you find
them but I wonder if they are there as hunters or for shelter.
Yt, Dave Webster, Kentville
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