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What have you learned about the burying beetle and other insects that make them important to “The Natural World”?

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Answer: Burying beetles are true to their name—they bury the carcasses of small vertebrates such as birds and rodents as a food source for their larvae.

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they are on the endangered species list

jane goodall said that they are "nature's most efficient recyclers."

The American burying beetle is one of nature's most efficient recyclers, feeding and sheltering its own brood while returning nutrients to the earth to nourish vegetation and keeping ant and fly populations in check.

populations of prairie chickens and passenger pigeons have been reduced by the loss of the burying beetle.

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