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  • Caption: Common Name: black carrion beetle, Scientific Name: Nicrophorus nigrita, Magnification: .80x, Notes: also called burying beetle. They seek out dead animal carcasses in which they lay their eggs. The attached mites ride along from one carcass to another, Scientist's Notes: Tree: President – near, collected at UV light, Order: Coleoptera, Family: Silphidae, Location: Giant Forest, Sequoia National Park, Contact: Peter T Oboyski, Collections Manager & Senior Museum Scientist, Essig Museum of Entomology, email: poboyski@berkeley.edu
  • Location: Giant Forest, Sequoia National Park