Alternative tactics and individual reproductive success in natural associations of the burying beetle, Nicrophorus vespilloides

By Josef K. Müller, Veronika Braunisch, Wenbe Hwang, Anne-katrin Eggert. 2007

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Current brood size and residual reproductive value predict offspring desertion in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides (2009, background): “In nature, approximately 85% of N. vespilloides broods are tended by at least one male and one female (Müller et al. 2007), and uneasy breeding associations between 3 or more adults are common (Müller et al. 2007) due to the relative scarcity of carrion (Eggert and Müller 1997).”
Age-specific reproductive investment in female burying beetles: independent effects of state and risk of death (2011, background): “There the offspring may be fed and defended by 161 both parents (Eggert et al., 1997; Scott, 1998), although female-only care is also seen in 162 nature (Muller et al., 2007).”