Steve Stahl climbed up the thin ladder to the second story of his two-car garage and then walked into a specially built room where his dermestid (flesh-eating) beetles are kept. He lifted a screen off ...

DEER LODGE — Trina Kent caught a big whiff of the meat-eating beetles’ distinctive aroma and set a boundary or two. “I said, ‘I will do everything else, the billing and the Internet stuff, but I’m ...

DULUTH, Minn.—The steel building where Allen Edberg works on furs is lit by only two light bulbs dangling on long cords from the ceiling. When you enter on a bright winter day, you will need to pause ...

With the deer season over and temperatures perfect for hanging and aging venison, local hunters soon will be deciding what to do with their bucks' antlers. It's a disrespectful waste to just discard a ...

NORTH PLATTE -- Hunters take pride in the animals they harvest and putting them on display is something many folks like to do. However, some methods are quite expensive and the process is long for a ...

DEER LODGE — Frank Slaughtner and his son, JR, of Deer Lodge are avid hunters and over the years had a number of European trophy mounts done. In 2004, they purchased a starter colony of dermestid ...

Justin Graber in his shop north of Newton, Graber Skulls. He uses millions of dermestid beetles to clean away tissue before the skull is bleached and polished making what is called a European mount.

Charles Doria pulls back the sheet covering a large custom-built tank in his workshop. Inside, a deer skull rests on a thick bed of pine mulch. From the looks of it, Doria's assistants, a creepy ...

» Adult dermestid or carpet beetles lay eggs that hatch into tiny larva that molt eight times as they feed and grow to about ¾-inch long in 30 days. The larvae, which look a little like maggots except ...

DULUTH, Minn. -- The steel building where Allen Edberg works on furs is lit by only two light bulbs dangling on long cords from the ceiling. When you enter on a bright winter day, you will need to ...