burying beetle in English

noun
1
a black beetle that typically has broad orange bands on its wing cases. It buries small animal carcasses to provide a food store for its larvae.
Dental floss was tied to a stake at one end and to the hind leg of the carcass at the other to facilitate locating the carcass after displacement by burying beetles .

Use "burying beetle" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "burying beetle" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "burying beetle", or refer to the context using the word "burying beetle" in the English Dictionary.

1. American Burying beetle (Nicrophorus americanus) Family: Silphidae USFWS American Burying Beetle Species Profile page (ECOS) Description: The American Burying beetle is a large black insect with two distinct orange bands on each elytra (wing covers)

2. Very little is known about the decline of the American Burying beetle.

3. Nicrophorus mongolicus is a burying beetle described by Shchegoleva-Barovskaya in 1933.

4. Nicrophorus argutor is a species of burying beetle found in Russia, Mongolia, China and Kazakhstan.

5. Shameless corruption does not make a hero The Burying beetle was created for a purpose and it acts according to and is true to that purpose.