All wrapped up and snug. What else can you really say? Or perhaps it is an alien, and not a bug at all (catch the cool space helmet). Really, this cute little guy turns out to be of the order Coleoptera, suborder Polyphaga, superfamily Bostrichoidea and family Anobiidae - more simply, he's a Death Watch beetle. In the olden days this beetle would make a clicking sound in it's burrow and people would see this as a portent of doom. He plays possum when disturbed and looks like he's dead. This little guy carried the act too far, but he's cute anyway.
Photo and information courtesy of Dave Lamb.
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