scavenger beetle

The vernacular name water scavenger beetles is not an accurate description of their habit.

Like the little green scavenger beetles that take care of the refuse of Hive.

Hunched and armoured like a scavenger beetle, it picked at the carcass of a fish.

Staphyliniformia - includes rove beetles and water scavenger beetles.

Hydrophilidae, also called water scavenger beetles, is a family of chiefly aquatic beetles.

Latridiidae is a family of tiny, little-known beetles commonly called minute brown scavenger beetles.

Hydrophilus is a genus of water scavenger beetles belonging to the Hydrophilidae family.

Until recently it only included a single family, the water scavenger beetles (Hydrophilidae), but several of the subfamilies have been removed and raised to family rank.

Allocotocerus mixtus (Table Mountain Water Scavenger Beetle)

Pond-dwelling species that are rare in the UK which have been observed here include the mud snail, great raft spider and a species of water scavenger beetle.

The lesser silver water beetle, Hydrochara caraboides, is a species of water scavenger beetle (family Hydrophilidae).

We went into all the twenty-odd dwellings, finding the skeletons picked clean by the carrion ants and scavenger beetles--only a few, about a dozen in all I guess; all perfectly inoffensive and dry.

By the time Dread and his team were in the water heading for the target, the cleaning crew, like white-clad scavenger beetles, would be pulling the two-story house to pieces and destroying all clues as to who had inhabited it these past three days.