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Monday, 19 September 2011


Scientists discover just how protective burying beetles are...

Scientists discover just how protective burying beetles are...

Here are some truly loving parents. Scientists have discovered that burying beetles cover their young’s food with an antibacterial substance to help them survive.

If they didn’t do this, their young would fail to gain weight and die.

Burying beetles find small dead animals and bury them so no other creatures can eat them.

Then they lay their eggs on the buried animals and wait for the baby beetles to hatch. To stop the dead animal rotting, they coat it in the anitbacterial substance first, so it stays fresh for their young… tasty!





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