My nice co-worker brought me a rhinoceros beetle (well, it may actually be an ox beetle, but we'll call it a rhinoceros beetle). Right now it doesn't have a real habitat and it's just a lonely male. But she says she will look for an aquarium they were planning to get rid of and she will bring him a mate.
From what I can tell, it will live for about 4 months, but maybe we can manage to breed some.
He isn't eating the fruit the sites say he should eat (soft bananas, etc) but I gave him a tea bag and he went nuts. He immediately tore into it and then buried himself in the grounds. I figured that since I brew my tea with fructose, this would at least fice him an approximation of the food he normally eats. I guess he agrees. So I guess I'll need to save my tea bags and give them to him from time to time.
This will be Hyperion's new pet.
Biking -
Short ride tonight because it decided to sprinkle, only 2 miles. 79F, 69% humidity (that's according to weather underground, I would have thought it would have been more like 100% since it was sprinkling). 12.7mph, ESE winds with gusts of 20.7mph.
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I'm glad the little guy is eating at least something. I'm concerned that he isn't eating his fruit; I didn't think insects were so picky.
Also, I think I may be a sick freak, because I'm seriously anxious about the appetite of a short-lived insect which lives halfway across the country from me.
Here's hoping that beetle love will soon be in the offing -
He loves the freakin' tea bags. So, I go through a tea bag every other day he should be happy.
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