The beetle is among the most diverse insects in the world. There are more than 400,000 known species belonging to the insect ...

By the time the cadaver has been reduced to bones, hair, and dried out skin only the larvae of hide beetles, as well as scarabs and checkered beetles remain. The life cycle and sequence of arrival ...

The attraction of virgin female hide beetles (Dermestes maculatus) to cadavers by a combination of decomposition odour and male sex pheromones. Frontiers in Zoology , 2012 (in press) [ abstract ...