Alex Wild<p>One perk of being curator of a natural history collection is that our volunteers and staff bring me little treasures. Here's an Oiceoptoma carrion beetle that John Carroll found on a deer carcass in south Austin. Life- and death- goes on.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/insects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>insects</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Silphidae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Silphidae</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Beetles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Beetles</span></a></p>