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Four-Spotted Carrion Beetle

Dendroxena quadrimaculata

About

A yellowish-brown beetle with four dark spots on its elytra, unusual for a silphid because it hunts in trees rather than on the ground. It climbs trunks searching for caterpillars.

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Did You Know?

It is one of the only carrion beetles that has abandoned carrion feeding entirely, becoming an arboreal caterpillar predator.