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单词 burying beetle
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Definition of burying beetle in English:

burying beetle

noun
  • A black beetle, typically with broad orange bands on its wing cases, which buries small animal carcasses to provide a food store for its larvae.

    Nicrophorus and other genera, family Silphidae

    Also called sexton beetle
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Our work and Suzuki's also suggest that searching burying beetles can respond to the presence of congeners, irrespective of pheromone emission.
    • There are isolated examples in nature: the American burying beetle watches its larvae, and male fish do the majority of egg guarding and cleaning.
    • 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.
    • Even insect larvae try to get adult attention; immature burying beetles gesticulate at their parents to earn a helping of regurgitated, rotten meat.
    • Each of the black pots contains a rotting quail carcass covered in soil and swarming with the larvae of American burying beetles.
 
 

Definition of burying beetle in US English:

burying beetle

noun
  • 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.

    Nicrophorus and other genera, family Silphidae

    Also called sexton beetle
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Our work and Suzuki's also suggest that searching burying beetles can respond to the presence of congeners, irrespective of pheromone emission.
    • Even insect larvae try to get adult attention; immature burying beetles gesticulate at their parents to earn a helping of regurgitated, rotten meat.
    • Each of the black pots contains a rotting quail carcass covered in soil and swarming with the larvae of American burying beetles.
    • 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.
    • There are isolated examples in nature: the American burying beetle watches its larvae, and male fish do the majority of egg guarding and cleaning.
 
 
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