ブライアン・メイさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ブライアン・メイInstagram)「MAY BUG story ! Tell ya in a minute ! Meanwhile ... do you like this little chap ? 💥💥💥💥 Yep - he’s a beetle ! (definitively NOT a cockroach !!!) But this was a re-education for me. I just wrote the whole story here and Instagram lost it. So I will try again. Yesterday my Lady Wife noticed something that looked like a stone or a fallen chip underneath a table in our room in a pleasant holiday hotel in Devon. She picked it up and put it on piece of paper, and left it for me to see. It DID look like a kind of beetle, but it was completely motionless and seemed to have no legs. We carefully turned it over, and its feelers seemed to be tucked in and stiff, so we thought, sadly, it must be dead. 💥💥 What to do ? Put it in the bin ? It seemed somehow disrespectful. And ... did I imagine it, or did that feeler just move a tiny bit ? No - must have imagined it. A couple of hours later, the seemingly inanimate pod was still there, and I resolved to get it back, dead or alive, to its natural habitat. Meanwhile I’d made a pretty positive identification the Internet. It was definitely a May Bug. Now - I should have known. As a kid I had seen May Bugs on a warm Spring evening, buzzing about noisily like small helicopters. They made you nervous because they gave the impression they might crash into your head. But they never did. They must have good Radar ! Although they might seem scary, they’re completely harmless. So I made a pouch out of newspaper, and carefully put the piece of paper with the beetle on it in the pouch, ready to transport it safely to its place of rest. As I did so, again I had the impression that perhaps a leg had moved a fraction of a millimetre ? Holding the pouch, I headed out of the hotel towards a safe place in the bushes. As I went out of the door, I felt a sharp bump in the pouch. ( 💥.... continued in next post) Bri」5月29日 22時56分