The snake was probably caught and eaten by a Red-Shouldered Hawk. The left-overs have provided meals for several fly species, ants, and now carrion beetles.
The economy of nature is a marvelous thing.
5.19.2005
Waste Not, Want Not
An American Carrion Beetle, Necrophila americana, working on the carcass of a Northern Black Racer.
The snake was probably caught and eaten by a Red-Shouldered Hawk. The left-overs have provided meals for several fly species, ants, and now carrion beetles.
The economy of nature is a marvelous thing.
The snake was probably caught and eaten by a Red-Shouldered Hawk. The left-overs have provided meals for several fly species, ants, and now carrion beetles.
The economy of nature is a marvelous thing.
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4 comments:
And with a McDonald's in every port!
So true, Mr. B, so true.
That's an impressive specimen. We'd be up to our ears in foulness without decomposers like this little guy. Thank goodness they're around!
I don't want any foulness, that's for sure.
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