Comments on: Ironclad Beetle http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2005/07/13/ironclad-beetle-2/ Are we experts yet? Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:43:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: jenmgagne http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2005/07/13/ironclad-beetle-2/comment-page-1/#comment-65717 jenmgagne Tue, 09 Aug 2011 15:01:35 +0000 http://new.cheshirecat.net/wtbblog/2005/07/13/ironclad-beetle-2/#comment-65717 I found one of these living on a dead grand fir (nearly certain this is what it was judging by the bark and cones), at the base of Cypress mountain, just outside of Vancouver, BC, Canada. We've named him Henry, and no longer plays dead when provoked (he's gotten used to us), and has been living in a little jar on our kitchen table for a month now. He seems to have been subsisting on the piece of bark I grabbed from the tree he was on and drops of water, but I've now fed him some apples! Now that I know he can live for a year, I'm excited to see how long we have our kitchen table pet :) I found one of these living on a dead grand fir (nearly certain this is what it was judging by the bark and cones), at the base of Cypress mountain, just outside of Vancouver, BC, Canada.

We’ve named him Henry, and no longer plays dead when provoked (he’s gotten used to us), and has been living in a little jar on our kitchen table for a month now. He seems to have been subsisting on the piece of bark I grabbed from the tree he was on and drops of water, but I’ve now fed him some apples! Now that I know he can live for a year, I’m excited to see how long we have our kitchen table pet :)

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