Nicrophorusbeetles are well known for interring small vertebrates below ground for the purpose of rearing their young. However, thearborealuse of carrion has not been previously investigated. Nest boxes were suspended in the canopy of two forest habitats in Nova Scotia, Canada, to determine if this microhabitat fostered the same behaviour. Although four species ofNicrophorusas well asOiceoptoma noveboracense(Forster) were recorded in association with carrion,arborealreproduction was recorded exclusively and for the first time inN. tomentosusWeber andN. defodiensMannerheim. BothN. sayiLaporte andN. pustulatusHerschel were associated with the arboreal carrion but did not reproduce on it during these experiments.