Red-breasted carrion beetle mating season

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This 4 December 2019 video by Tineke Cramer in the Netherlands shows three male red-breasted carrion beetles (Oiceoptoma thoracicum) trying to mate with a female.

This species does not eat just carrion, but also, eg, common stinkhorn fungi.

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