Flesh eating beetles are a great way to clean skulls and bones.
A moderately large colony of dermestids can clean a deer or bear skull in just a few days. Every bit of tissue inside and out will be consumed by the hungry larvae. There is no spot to small to clean as the newly hatched larvae utilize these areas that the bigger ones cannot push into. Nature provides a place at the table for every size class of these insects.
The larvae will clean the inside of the skull and the nasel cavity leaving the delicate nasel bones intact.
After just a few days your skull will look totally different from what you placed into that box. It is by no means a finished item but with a little more time and work it will be a work of art.
There are thousands of people who raise dermestid beetles. For many it is a hobby, they collect skulls or some even make art and jewelry from bones. Others clean skulls as a business. These people take a hunters's trophy and turn it into memories.
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