Flesh Eating Beetles at the Smithsonian's Osteology Laboratory

http://www.mnh.si.edu/
At the Smithsonian Natural History Museum in Washington D.C., John J. Ososky prepares animal specimens for research and exhibition with the help of flesh eating beetles.

For more info, see:

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/aroundthemall/2009/05/why-are-museum-specimen...
and
http://vertebrates.si.edu/mammals/mammals_staff_pages/ososky_john.cfm

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• Smithsonian
• Osteology bones
• dermestid beetles
• John Ososky
• Vertebrate Zoology
• flesh eating beetles
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[rbmaserang]

i turned into a clean skeleton watching this it is soo boring

[obiwanmaui]

Love the natural history museum

[loner1878]

@MrJahop

I've been in that lab. Its nasty all right, lol. But you should see the "meat freezer from hell" in that lab. Its got a frozen bear, frozen dolphins, you name it.

And it broke down last summer...fun time cleaning it out.

[MrJahop]

I wonder what it smells like in that department???? LOL

[robasci00]

our future 

[dontgoplastic]

Keep on rockin' and cleaning those bones, bud!

[dEsSiCaTa]

2:16

"WOOO piggyback!"

[wertzx]

@rbmaserang why did you watch it then? i think its really interesting but thats cuz i like to learn and i love the smithsonian

[SBTesting]

Awesome video! 

[geoffdundee]

i had these disgusting little buggers in my house but after treatment im hoping they wont be back.......ive no bodies under the floor and have checked my neighbours are alive.

[VercingetorixXIII]

so the littler skinny beetles are the larvae and the big ones die after 30 days.... wow, I learn new things everyday....