What are these bugs?

These bugs are on a voodoo lily and seem like a young version of something I should recognize?

The lilly stinks of course so the bugs must like that smell.

Someone on another site suggested red-lined carrion beetle and that seems right

 

Around here we call them stink bugs ! maybe thats why they like your stinky lily !

 

Thats what I thought at first but on close inspection they were not!

 

Stink bugs!

 

Closer to a dung beetle!

 

They are not dung beetles, or at least I don’t think so. They have the head and body shape of a stink bug, but not the same colour.

 

That stink lily! Oh, my, what a beauty!

 

Its a weirdo. It has gone by now.

 

Definitely some kind of beetle... (I know, I am not much help)

 

It’s a stink bug.. I hate those things. They were everywhere a few years ago. Threatened agriculture and hops a major export. The state hired airplanes to spray and not only were all the stink bugs gone but nothing flew walk or crawled for 3 years after they sprayed. It was a twilight moment..

check out the bug chart on the opening page.

 

Oh wow!! That is one impressive Lily.

 

Red-lined Carrion Beetle - Necrodes surinamensis

That is what it looks like to me
https://bugguide.net/node/view/917015/bgimage

It has pincers and odd antennae.
https://bugguide.net/node/view/6741/bgimage?from=24

 

I agree that this is one of the carrion beetles - otherwise burying beetles. These wonderful flat beetles do a great job of dealing with decomposing bodies - exactly the same aroma as the voodoo lily has (foul) It has an extra flat body which is useful to dig under a rotting body and cover it with soil. All of these insects have important parts to play in nature and it's such a shame that so many humans rush to kill everything off with poisons !!