"Adult [margined burying beetles (Nicrophorus marginatus)] often drag a small carcass 16 feet, bury it beneath loose dirt, then mate there.  They remove fur or feathers [from the carcass], work [the] body into a ball shape then lay eggs.  Adults care for larvae until larvae pupate, sometimes in a side tunnel."—from Lorus and Margery Milne in The Audobon Society Field Guide to North American Insects and Spiders, Alfred A. Knopt, 1980, p.549