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Dermestids, Death, and Pandemic Ponderings

Dermestids, Death, and Pandemic Ponderings

Update: 2023-11-01
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In late 2020 I’m spending mornings masked, working in a lab in the University of Montana Zoological Museum. The museum houses research collections of natural artifacts like skins and skeletons. But behind the scenes museum staff tend a single living collection: a colony of dermestid beetles, the meticulous scavengers that scour flesh from bones before a skeleton can be installed in the museum.
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Dermestids, Death, and Pandemic Ponderings

Dermestids, Death, and Pandemic Ponderings