#3223 · 🪲 beetles

Lesser Vespillo Burying Beetle

🇳🇱 Gewone doodgraver ·Nicrophorus vespilloides

🪲 Beetles 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © salvatore_infanti · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Марина Горбунова-Ëлкина · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Suso Tizón · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
4. © Tony Palmer · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. 9321 XG Peize, Nederland:© Sake de Vries · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Leidschendam, Nederland:© Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Heusden wonen, Heusden, Brabant, NL:© Mats Douma · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Bergh, NL-GE, NL:© keesgroenendijk · CC BY 4.0
9. 3732 HV De Bilt, Nederland:© Merijn Schipper · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Lisse, Nederland:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

Nicrophorus vespilloides is a burying beetle described by Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst in 1783.

base stats

NL sightings 161iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 7,283iNaturalist observations

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

Spotted 161 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
7,283 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst in 1784 (242 years ago).