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Identifier: introductiontozo00dave Title: Introduction to zoology; a guide to the study of animals, for the use of secondary schools; Year: 1900 (1900s) Authors: Davenport, Charles Benedict, 1866-1944 Davenport, Gertrude Anna Crotty, 1866- Subjects: Zoology Publisher: New York, Macmillan company London, Macmillian and co., ltd. Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library Digitizing Sponsor: MBLWHOI Library


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Text Appearing After Image: animal is irritated, is raised as though to sting (Fig. 45). These beetles feed upon decaying animal and plant matter; consequently they are useful scavengers. Some species in-habit the nests of ants and of termites,but their relations with their hosts areunknown. The larvae are not unlike theadults, and inhabit similar situations. The carrion or sexton beetles (Silphi-drel) are usually of medium or largesize, and are either stout-bodied, withred spots on each elytron (Necro- phorus2), or very much flattened andFIG. 46. —Silpha amer- .,,,-,/ -, -, ^ ^.,, ,,. ... icana, a carrion bee- with thin-edged elytra (Silpha, -b ig. 46). tie. From Standard rpjie Species of NecropllOrilS are power-Natural History. * ful animals. When one or more pairsof these beetles discover a dead bird or small mammalon the ground, they dig out the earth from underneathand pile it upon the animal until eventually the car-cass is entirely buried. Thenthe female deposits her eggsupon the body, so that a richsup


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