American Burying Beetle aka Nicrophorus americanus

American Burying Beetle aka Nicrophorus americanus

American Burying Beetle, (Andrew Butko/Wikipedia).
A specimen on display in Saint Petersburg Zoology Museum, Russia. (Andrew Butko/Wikipedia).

Although it once ranged from Nova Scotia to Florida, the American Burying Beetle's last native population east of the Mississippi is now found only on Block Island. The inch-long insect was added to the Endangered Species list in 1989, and in the early 1990s a successful program to breed and reintroduce the beetles to selected habitats was initiated at Roger Williams Park Zoo.

Last Edited
2020-05-23