I found a new specimen! Last night this beauty did a kamikaze run straight into the plate glass window in the front of the store shortly after I arrived (around midnight). It slid slowly down the pane, flipped over once, and plopped down on the ledge outside. I checked in the morning and it was still there, so I got an appropriately sized container ( Read more... )

I didn't mean to start collecting bugs, but when I spotted this thing on the ground in the parking lot after work today I couldn't just leave it there. I was bringing a cardboard box home anyway, so I slid it gently onto my newspaper and stuck it in the box. Turns out it isn't dead though; it must have been attacked by a bird or something, ( Read more... )