
When I was walking my dog, Pumpkin, in a local park, a rather large insect caught my eyes.  It was stuck on its back in the sand of a baseball field.  Its six (or was it eight?) legs were flailing in the air.  I was nervous to touch it, but then I realized it was just a beetle.  A very big beetle.  It looked exotic to me.  Kind of like a 
Rhinoceros beetle.  I didn't know that Jersey has big bugs like this.  So I took it home to observe it.  Looking it up, I found out that it is a 
Stag beetle, and they like to eat wood.  I put a piece of wood next to it, and sure enough it eats wood.  Steph and I release the beetle the next day in a "real" park - one with lots of woods.