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Family life in the burying beetle (N. vespilloides). (A) A mother engaged in direct care by regurgitating predigested carrion to the larvae, which are begging from the mouse carcass. (B) Larvae self-feeding on predigested carrion within the crater (an excavation in the surface of the mouse carcass created by the parents) (photographs by A.J.M.).
