An Island Funeral

Today we awoke to torrential rain. The only good thing about torrential rain is that since you can't see the mountains you tend to look at the ground and then, sometimes, you see wondrous things.
This is a funeral in progress. The deceased is a common shrew and the grave-diggers are Sexton Beetles Nicrophorus vespillo.
The beetles get their name from their practice of digging a hole beneath a dead animal and then pulling the body down into the hole. Sexton beetles usually work in pairs, and once the corpse is buried the female will deposit up to 50 eggs directly on to it and her young will feed on it when they hatch. The adult beetles can detect a rotting body from a hundred meters away and then they fly to it.

If you don't believe me than take a look at the movie!