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The Nicrophorinae


By TRACIE HAYES


waking, antennal clubs alert, the winged searchers find their carcass / emergence is not always an upward movement / they defend this rare and ephemeral precious bonanza, burying, tending, protecting, laying their eggs, caring for them, this energy metamorphosed, the larvae feed and grow, they move into the soil to pupate, to wait