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American Carrion Beetle

Necrophila americana

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This bug has been reportedly found in the following regions:

Ashdown, Arkansas

Lavaca, Arkansas

Skowhegan, Maine

Emigrant, Montana

Deepwater, New Jersey

Vincentown, New Jersey

Craryville, New York

Newark, Ohio

Dover, Pennsylvania

Thomasville, Pennsylvania

Wellsville, Pennsylvania

Whitehall, Pennsylvania

Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania

Leesburg, Virginia

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gardenwife

Newark, OH (Zone 5b) | July 2008 | Positive

Nature's cleaner-uppers. This is one big beetle. Acording to bugguide.net, it was formerly called silpha americana. They eat carrion and decaying fungi. The larvae eat carrion, maggots and other carrion beetles (equal opportunity eaters!). Nice.

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