What will a female burying beetle do when it is sick?

Question: What will a female burying beetle do when it is sick?
- Keywords:
  animal,
  biology,
  insect
Asked by dawn1key to Georgia L on 22 May 2024.
- Georgia Lambert answered on 22 May 2024:
  
  Great question! From my experiments, I have found out that they keep looking after their children even when they are infected with a nasty disease which is really interesting because you’d think they need some time off to recover but they just keep going.