Beetlemania!
Hey, guess what we found outside the squash courts this morning! A rhinoceros beetle napping on its back! We brought it back in our sports equipment, and found that it likes to hold on to the strings of a racquet with its tiny, but incredibly strong claws. We put it in a tupperware container with holes in the top, and while I was trying to get its little toes off the edge (the better to seal the container) it HISSED at me! Mary heard the hiss, too, a few steps away, so I wasn’t imagining it. We showed it to our families; my offspring fled to another room and shut the door, but Mary’s six-year-old found it interesting. Not as interesting as Mary and I found it, though. I don’t have a picture of it, but here’s a link to a youtube video of a few fighting and rolling rocks and logs around in the jungle.