Tuesday, July 4, 2023

Stag Beetle

Came across this guy just chillin', just like that, in front of my door.  I have no idea how or why a stag beetle would be found 11 stories up a mountain of concrete and steel, but there you are.

Anyway, so I gathered him up and took him inside, and placed him in a glass container.  He seemed pretty feeble, and I had this vague impression that he was near death, and I would soon have a cool addition to my hoardery.  Except he was fine a day later, and I had to admit I was keeping a creature prisoner, waiting for it to die.  It was such a repellent realization, I actually felt evil.  I had to let him go.

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