{"id":7,"date":"2022-01-06T22:31:15","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T22:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/?p=7"},"modified":"2024-05-23T18:48:47","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T09:48:47","slug":"pun-chans-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/2022\/01\/06\/pun-chans-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Pun-chan’s new year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This is Pun-chan. She is a female Japanese rhinoceros beetle (kabuto mushi). These gentle beetles are mostly nocturnal. I found her in my apartment’s parking lot on a very hot day in July. My wife wanted to keep her. It’s so cute how she bumbles around in her plastic box home. These beetles tend to die off just when autumn begins (around the end of September), but we have kept her warm and we celebrated New Years with Pun-chan. She’s slowing down though, and I don’t think we will have her around much longer. She sleeps more, eats less, and isn’t as mobile anymore. She loves bananas and brown sugar jelly, but her appetite has faded and I feel badly that she won’t be around much longer. It makes me sad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is Pun-chan. She is a female Japanese rhinoceros beetle (kabuto mushi). These gentle beetles are mostly nocturnal. I found her in my apartment’s parking lot on a very hot day in July. My wife wanted to keep her. It’s so cute how she bumbles around in her plastic box home. These beetles tend to … <\/p>\n

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