The magnificents

Found this rather logy gentleman as he bumbled along the exterior wall of the zoo hospital. I have also been fielding requests to identify similar insects this week--apparently the reddish-brown stag beetles are out and about this time of year. They're probably mating and dying, that combination of events that makes many otherwise cryptic insects more conspicuous.


Not far away, in an off-exhibit greenhouse, our corpse plant Morticia bloomed again. Totally worth a little kiss.

Not tired of them yet

I used to think of house centipedes as strictly indoor creatures until I moved to the cottage three years ago. Now I'm as likely to see a baby like this one scuttling along the outside wall as I am to to find one trapped in the kitchen sink.

3:00 snapshot #1684: Tuesday

You know, I had a feeling this character wouldn't survive the movie.