Margined carrion beetle larva (on white-tail deer remains)

Thanks for sharing Karen! I love carrion beetles! Excellent little cleaners, aren't they?! Last summer I documented a mule deer carcass that had been hit by a car. I posted a spotting regarding turkey vultures that had feasted on it. http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/14025771 I went back every 7 days to document the changes. Unfortunately, I felt most of the images were to graphic for PN, so I have them in a folder on my computer for now!

Gorgeous! I love the patterns on this larva!

I think that I can really stand all kind of weird smells/ chemicals apart from the smell of decomposing fat or just dirty fat (that can be smelled on many seals and when I hear people saying "oh what a cute seal" I freak out, try to smell that cute animal) and this jelly parts look just enough fatty too me, so no wonder why anybody would forget about that :D

great photograph and observations.

Amazing creatures, they are totally invoking some ancient times with dinos around!

Wow! Amazing spotting Karen! Woodlice has gotten really wild lately haha, first a ladybug, now a deer. That escalated quickly.

Nice series of pictures!