Because it stops the decaying process
decaying
It depends on the species. Some beetles are exclusively vegetarian - while others eat dead or decaying animal tissue.
Skin tissue
by breaking them down with digestive juices
They will eventually because of gasses ( generated by decaying tissue ) in their body. Same as with humans, you have seem pictures of drowning victims bloated bodies.
that means you've got something dead and decaying on your property. enjoy.
It rips easily.
vegetation that is decaying
The decaying leaves created a musty smell in the forest.
The suffix -ic means pertaining to. The prefix hist- means tissue. The prefix cyt- means cell So histocytic means pertaining to the tissue and cells.
The term that means death and decay of soft tissue is "necrosis".