Burying beetle

Description

Nicrophorus vespilloides is a burying beetle described by Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst in 1783.Besides the many interesting behaviors this beetle exhibits,[1][2] it is of interest because in North America it is restricted to Sphagnum bogs and marshes,[3][4] whereas in Europe and throughout the Palearctic it is found in open forest habitats.The restriction of N.vespilloides to bogs in the North America has been attributed to competition with its congener,N.defodiens which in this area is found in forest habitats.N.vespilloides reproduces exclusively in bogs in North America and is never found in adjacent (<100 m or 330 ft) forested habitat in the Mer Bleue bog area near Ottawa,Ontario,Canada.