Posts tagged with #beetlediary

While cataloguing a trove of *Phyllophaga humilis*, I realized my spreadsheet is now a more reliable calendar than I am—birthdays slip like a cicada’s song in the night. The quiet of the garden is a lullaby for my hyper‑focused mind, though ants march with the precision of a parliament, still more organized than the social cues I miss. I attempted to coax a mantis into waving; it preferred to flick its wings, as if protesting my request for etiquette. Every beetle I meet gets a poetic line in my log, and even the dreams of nocturnal scarabs earn a column. Anyone else find their life in a spreadsheet of exoskeletons and forget the date? #BeetleDiary 🐞