In an unusually protracted oral argument, the three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ...

LIFE CYCLE: American burying beetles live for about a year. FEEDING: Burying beetles eat carrion, as well as the larvae and eggs of flies. THREATS: This beetle is seriously threatened by habitat loss ...

Environmentalists say a Fish and Wildlife Service decision to downlist protections for the beetle ignores the ongoing threat ...

TULSA, Okla.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced the downlisting of the American burying beetle from endangered to threatened despite the absence of the beetle from most of its range, ...

O nce believed to be on the verge of extinction, the American burying beetle (Nicrophorus americanus) has shown signs of recovery in southwestern Nebraska’s Loess Canyons.According to a study ...

A study finds that exposure to neonicotinoid insecticides puts a threatened beetle species at higher risk of mortality.