Pie-Dish Beetle Pursues Longer Life

I know of only one pie-dish beetleactively pursuing a longer life    but there may have been    and probably are still othersdeterminedly engaged in the sameundertaking. Approaching the end    of its year on earth,    turning its flangeto edge off predators, combingnight ground for decaying    vegetable matter,    it considers its dietand becomes more particular.How decayed, what species of plant,    how rapidly consumed,    which morsels might […]