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Necrobia rufipes
2222_0711 Photo added 2005-12-29

Necrobia rufipes (Coleoptera: Cleridae)
Red-legged Ham Beetle
, Alameda County, California
December 14, 2005

This beetle is a pest of the Dermestes maculatus larvae that clean the specimens being prepared for the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkeley. It's also a pest of meat cured for human consumption, and it eats other dead animals as well.

all photos and text © Joyce Gross