Since flies are often on the dead animals before the Burying Beetles, they also very quickly lay fly eggs in the carcasses. The mites eat these fly eggs and the Burying Beetles have a maggot-free food. The Burying Beetles, for their part, bring the mites directly to their food, the fly eggs.
Thank you very much @carlgnash
Since flies are often on the dead animals before the Burying Beetles, they also very quickly lay fly eggs in the carcasses. The mites eat these fly eggs and the Burying Beetles have a maggot-free food. The Burying Beetles, for their part, bring the mites directly to their food, the fly eggs.
I found this information here: http://www.natur-lexikon.com/Texte/MZ/001/00078-Totengraeber/MZ00078-Totengraeber.html (German language)
That is awesome. Gotta love nature. I would never have guessed that was a symbiotic relationship by the look of it!
I also had never guessed that it is a symbiosis. I first thought they are eating it ort they are some kind of parasites.