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Correction: A previous version of this story incorrectly identified a mitigation option after the discovery of an American Burying Beetle. The general options are establishing and maintaining their ...

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — In what’s become an annual winter tradition, hundreds of people carrying torches set fire to a giant wooden beetle effigy in Custer, South Dakota, to raise awareness of the ...