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The Carrion Beetle Recording Scheme - Promoting the recording of #CarrionBeetles in the U.K. 🔎

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Hey BlueSky 👋 Please excuse the lateness, but we have arrived!

We’re here to promote the recording of #CarrionBeetles in the UK and help with any of your ID queries. Please join the #CarrionClub and help us spread the word! 💀 🪲
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While @dipteristsforum.bsky.social field meeting is in theory to collect flies, it’s proved to be a great trip for @carrionbeetlesuk.bsky.social! Along with Phosphuga atrata and Oiceoptoma thoracicum managed to find our first, hopefully, Nicrophorus vespilloides #entomology #diptera #coleoptera
June 20, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Silpha tristis on my walk y'day morning. A new beetle for me! This is the best photo I got, as it was moving so fast. I was on the phone with my friend from Exmoor when I noticed it and had to put him on hold!
@carrionbeetlesuk.bsky.social @ashwhiffin.bsky.social @colsocbi.bsky.social
June 2, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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A lovely Carrion beetle, Phosphuga atrata I think, seen 04/05/25 Hopwas Quarry, #Staffs @ashwhiffin.bsky.social @colsocbi.bsky.social #beetle #Silphidae
May 4, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Dear moth trappers, don’t forget to record your #MothTrapIntruders - we’ll be eternally grateful. 🖤
Nicrophorus humator from the trap in Filton this morning. I regularly see them on Exmoor, but not here.
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#carrionclub #mothtrapintruders
May 4, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Failed attempt to film a Black Sexton Beetle flying out of the trap, you can hear my absolute disgust when it bumped into me 😂 (sorry @ashwhiffin.bsky.social & @carrionbeetlesuk.bsky.social, they are just so stinky)
May 1, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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#LiteratureNotice Sommer et al. Revisiting the larval morphology of Oiceoptoma thoracicum ( #Coleoptera: #Staphylinidae: #Silphinae) doi.org/10.1093/jme/... #Beetle #Beetles #RoveBeetles #Taxonomy
April 13, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Common Snail hunters are on the prowl once more! Sorry snails! 🐌
The path on which we saw our first Black Oil Beetle was also haunt of these two. The first is Phosphuga atrata, Black Snail Beetle. Nice to see one on the move. The second is the larva of a Devil’s Coach Horse, Ocypus olens.
#beetles #ento #UKwildlife
April 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Curating a Starter Pack that will hopefully be useful to folk coming over to BlueSky and looking for all of the UK conservation orgs and recording societies go.bsky.app/Nget1LP Will keep adding to this. DM or reply to be added and please share.
February 12, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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A burying beetle, Nicrophorus investigator. They’re often attracted to the garden by light and, unlike most of them, this one stopped for a few seconds before disappearing into the lawn. Just enough time for some pics.
#beetles #ento #UKwildlife
August 19, 2024 at 5:45 PM
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Enjoyed a quick poke around some magnificent old oaks this morning. Was rewarded by a single smart Phosphuga atrata.

Hope to be back in search of some woody specialists soon. And moths, obvs.
#DalkeithCountryPark
March 25, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Hey BlueSky 👋 Please excuse the lateness, but we have arrived!

We’re here to promote the recording of #CarrionBeetles in the UK and help with any of your ID queries. Please join the #CarrionClub and help us spread the word! 💀 🪲
March 30, 2025 at 7:47 PM