Sunday, April 12, 2009

A Treasure Trove of Ironclad Beetles in the Woodpile!

Or Gorey beetles, as I like to call them. I found five of them today! As many in one day as I have seen in five years! I was cleaning up the woodpile and kept coming across them hiding among the logs. It was sort of like finding Easter eggs, only much better. 


I thought the first two were mere carcasses and moved them over to the hood of the car to save them; but after finding the third one I began to wonder if maybe they just play possum. So I moved them all back to the woodpile after I was done. 

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