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The American burying beetle once roamed as the mightiest scavenger among insects on Missouri prairies. But like the buffalo, it vanished.

A proposal by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to reintroduce this unusual and endangered bug to the Wah’Kon-Tah Prairie will be discussed at a public meeting 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday at the El Dorado Springs Community Center, 135 W. Spring St.