Image of Nicrophorus (Nicrophorus) defodiens (Mannerheim 1846)
Description:
Carrying Poecilochirus mites. The beetle is (at least according to Wikipedia) not a host, but rather a symbiote. The beetles carry the mites to carrion where they feed on fly eggs and larvae. In return, the mites may protect beetle larvae from flies either directly or by reducing competition from fly larvae.
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