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Last Evening I saw a beetle I'd never seen before fly to my screen door persistently (must have liked the smell of supper cooking). It was black with two orange marks on its carapace but when flying its abdomen was yellow & black like an elongated bee. I have tentatively identified it as nicrophorus sayi, red & black beetle, from the bug guide site. http://bugguide.net/node/view/51096 When I examined it closely, it appeared to have dozens of tiny light brown mites crawling on it, mostly on the underside. Would these be parasites or does it carry its young in this manner? The specimen picture on the Bugguide site actually appears to have a similar "mite" just behind its head. Can anybody advise how common these are and whether it was carrying babies? It finally got by our screen door and in to the house, but was quickly ejected to the screams of my wife and her visiting sister! Chris, any comments. Ken MacAulay Port Mouton, NS
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