3-Minute Insect Essential #17 from the INSECT NEWS NETWORK

BEETLES Part 2 – w/ Alanah Kull, Weevils and Burying Beetles – INN #17. To hear the full show, visit www.insectnewsnetwork.com and type in the number 17 - that's pound 17 in the search bar.

Most people think about bugs as mindless, cold, heartless biological robots. But what would you think if I told you that there is a type of insects that actually build a nest, marries for life and both the mother and the father feed their crying babies?

Complex parasocial behavior? Yes.

Mind blowing parallels with the idea of parenthood in the human world? Absolutely.

Hi Emmet Brady host and creator of the INN and For the uninitiated I am referring to a certain species of SILPHIDAE carrion beetles that are commonly called BURYING BEETLES. This amazingly complex behavior (executed by creatures with brains smaller than a pinhead) is part of the wonderful world of cultural Entomology the emerging third branch of insects studies.