Stink

October’s the month where we get infested with beetles that fly, crash into the light, and then emit a stench which is like concentrated smelly feet squared.

They’re small beetles, small and long. They look like a shortened earwig without the pincers, innocuous really.

They live in leaf litter and make all efforts to get indoors, where they then hide under anything there is to hide under. If they’re disturbed, they freeze, then scuttle in all directions. Like miniature cockroaches that smell.

Efforts to come up with an ID have so far met with failure. It’s in the Carabidae, is all we know for now. We may scan one for all you carabid experts out there…