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Carrion Beetle Recording Scheme

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The Carrion Beetle Recording Scheme - Promoting the recording of #CarrionBeetles in the U.K. 🔎 http://www.coleoptera.org.uk/silphidae/home

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Carrion Beetle Recording Scheme @carrionbeetlesuk.bsky.social · Mar 30

Hey BlueSky 👋 Please excuse the lateness, but we have arrived!

We’re here to promote the recording of #CarrionBeetles in the UK and help with any of your ID queries. Please join the #CarrionClub and help us spread the word! 💀 🪲

A montage of images, including carrion beetles, attendees at an ID workshop and a close up of the ID keys.

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Kieran Anderson @andersonkieran.bsky.social · Jun 20

While @dipteristsforum.bsky.social field meeting is in theory to collect flies, it’s proved to be a great trip for @carrionbeetlesuk.bsky.social! Along with Phosphuga atrata and Oiceoptoma thoracicum managed to find our first, hopefully, Nicrophorus vespilloides #entomology #diptera #coleoptera

A transparent glass tube is resting among bare soil and green plants. At the left side the tube is capped with a whiteish bung. In the middle is a largely black beetle, with four orange marks across its elytra.

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Carrion Beetle Recording Scheme @carrionbeetlesuk.bsky.social · Jun 22

Lovely! It was long thought to be a symbiotic relationship, but the mites are only beneficial to the beetles if there are enough fly eggs and larvae for them to eat, otherwise they will predate on the beetle eggs!

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Andy Pym @exmoormothman.bsky.social · Jun 2

Silpha tristis on my walk y'day morning. A new beetle for me! This is the best photo I got, as it was moving so fast. I was on the phone with my friend from Exmoor when I noticed it and had to put him on hold!
@carrionbeetlesuk.bsky.social @ashwhiffin.bsky.social @colsocbi.bsky.social

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Lisa Williams @lisawilliams30.bsky.social · May 4

A lovely Carrion beetle, Phosphuga atrata I think, seen 04/05/25 Hopwas Quarry, #Staffs @ashwhiffin.bsky.social @colsocbi.bsky.social #beetle #Silphidae

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Carrion Beetle Recording Scheme @carrionbeetlesuk.bsky.social · May 4

Dear moth trappers, don’t forget to record your #MothTrapIntruders - we’ll be eternally grateful. 🖤

Andy Pym @exmoormothman.bsky.social · Apr 30

Nicrophorus humator from the trap in Filton this morning. I regularly see them on Exmoor, but not here.
@carrionbeetlesuk.bsky.social
#carrionclub #mothtrapintruders

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Elaineeepoos @elaineeepoos.bsky.social · May 1

Failed attempt to film a Black Sexton Beetle flying out of the trap, you can hear my absolute disgust when it bumped into me 😂 (sorry @ashwhiffin.bsky.social & @carrionbeetlesuk.bsky.social, they are just so stinky)

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The Coleopterists Society @coleopsoc.bsky.social · Apr 13

#LiteratureNotice Sommer et al. Revisiting the larval morphology of Oiceoptoma thoracicum ( #Coleoptera: #Staphylinidae: #Silphinae) doi.org/10.1093/jme/... #Beetle #Beetles #RoveBeetles #Taxonomy

Fig. 1.Oiceoptoma thoracicum, L3, habitus. (A) Dorsal view. (B) Ventral view. (C) Lateral view.

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Carrion Beetle Recording Scheme @carrionbeetlesuk.bsky.social · Apr 14

Common Snail hunters are on the prowl once more! Sorry snails! 🐌

Rob Stephens @tillingtonchum.bsky.social · Apr 14

The path on which we saw our first Black Oil Beetle was also haunt of these two. The first is Phosphuga atrata, Black Snail Beetle. Nice to see one on the move. The second is the larva of a Devil’s Coach Horse, Ocypus olens.
#beetles #ento #UKwildlife

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Bex Cartwright @bexcartwright.bsky.social · Feb 12

Curating a Starter Pack that will hopefully be useful to folk coming over to BlueSky and looking for all of the UK conservation orgs and recording societies go.bsky.app/Nget1LP Will keep adding to this. DM or reply to be added and please share.

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Carrion Beetle Recording Scheme @carrionbeetlesuk.bsky.social · Apr 1

Thanks! 🙂

Carrion Beetle Recording Scheme @carrionbeetlesuk.bsky.social · Mar 31

It sure is! 🖤

Carrion Beetle Recording Scheme @carrionbeetlesuk.bsky.social · Mar 31

Great photo! This one, although very similar to Nicrophorus vespilloides, is Nicrophorus investigator (Banded Burying beetle). Clubs of the antenna are entirely black in N. vespilloides.

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Rob Stephens @tillingtonchum.bsky.social · Aug 19

A burying beetle, Nicrophorus investigator. They’re often attracted to the garden by light and, unlike most of them, this one stopped for a few seconds before disappearing into the lawn. Just enough time for some pics.
#beetles #ento #UKwildlife

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Carrion Beetle Recording Scheme @carrionbeetlesuk.bsky.social · Mar 31

It was not overlooked. Those working with wild populations of #CarrionBeetles knew this already. It’s knowledge imparted to us by Professor Jan Růžička. We teach it in our workshops and it is mentioned in the atlas… where’s the acknowledgment of this?

Carrion Beetle Recording Scheme @carrionbeetlesuk.bsky.social · Mar 31

Thanks for sharing! 🖤🧡

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Katty Baird @kattyponder.bsky.social · Mar 25

Enjoyed a quick poke around some magnificent old oaks this morning. Was rewarded by a single smart Phosphuga atrata.

Hope to be back in search of some woody specialists soon. And moths, obvs.
#DalkeithCountryPark

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Carrion Beetle Recording Scheme @carrionbeetlesuk.bsky.social · Mar 31

Thank you! ☺️

Carrion Beetle Recording Scheme @carrionbeetlesuk.bsky.social · Mar 31

👏💀 Congrats, Nick. You’re in the club.

Carrion Beetle Recording Scheme @carrionbeetlesuk.bsky.social · Mar 31

Fab! We’d be so grateful if you’d be willing to record your moth trap visitors via iRecord. Thanks if you already do! 🙂

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Carrion Beetle Recording Scheme @carrionbeetlesuk.bsky.social · Mar 31

Nice! This is the Red-breasted carrion beetle (Oiceoptoma thoracicum. Would be brilliant if you could upload your sighting to iRecord for us 🙂

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Carrion Beetle Recording Scheme @carrionbeetlesuk.bsky.social · Mar 30

Thanks, we approve!

Carrion Beetle Recording Scheme @carrionbeetlesuk.bsky.social · Mar 30

AKA the Banded burying beetle 🧡🖤

Carrion Beetle Recording Scheme @carrionbeetlesuk.bsky.social · Mar 30

We love this!! 👏

Carrion Beetle Recording Scheme @carrionbeetlesuk.bsky.social · Mar 30

Yes they’re pretty strong aren’t they! You have to be, to bury a body…

That’s a lovely male N. humator.

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Carrion Beetle Recording Scheme @carrionbeetlesuk.bsky.social · Mar 30

AKA The Undertaker! Please do share this visitor to your trap via iRecord for us 🙂