Love is in the Air ...

... Or maybe just the scent of decaying deer flesh.

Something has these Margined Carrion Beetles (Oiceoptoma noveboracense) all worked up.

This is a new species of Carrion Beetle for the yard, American Carrion Beetle and Ridged Carrion Beetle* the other two.

And it looks like they'll be plenty more around.

You can find all of the Yard Critter posts listed here.

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* Although if you look at the images in the Ridged Carrion Beetle Yard Critter post, you'll see that I've mis-identified O. noveboracense as American Carrion Beetle. O. noveboracense has the orange coloring, while the American Carrion Beetle has yellow.