From The Telegraph: Museum recruits flesh-eaters.
A team of 100 flesh-eating beetles that like to toil in the dark has been welcomed as the latest members of staff at the Natural History Museum in London.
The half-inch Dermestes maculatus beetles have the grisly task of stripping animal carcases to skeletons.
"They aren't the most conventional colleagues. But they do work very hard," said Patrick Campbell, curator.
"The larvae will eat the most and when the group is established they will get through two to four kilos of flesh a week."
From an initial colony of 100 beetles and larvae the museum expects to breed almost 1,000.
The advantage of using these natural "cleaners" is that every aspect of the bone is preserved. [continue]
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