#beetle behavior

I learned pretty quickly that these beetles aren't the smartest tools in the shed. For various reasons I will list.

They don't have the best vision either. A female was circling the yard looking for some food, and she slammed right into my shed with an audible CRACK, but like a trooper she kept flying and landed ok. I admit I laughed pretty hard, but felt bad for the poor dear and captured her for my tank.

They dig into the ground for absolutely no reason, and then just chill there. It's really strange! I was digging dirt for my tank when I found a random female in the dirt, and later found my tank beetles did the same thing.

With six beetles in a jar and two of them being males, I assumed that there would be fighting but they COMPLETELY IGNORED EACH OTHER. Even when the beetles walked into each other they just awkwardly turned away or walked over each other.

Different beetles have different personalities, sort of. Of the six beetles I placed in my tank, all of them wandered off and dug into the dirt except one. She ran into the side of the tank for five minutes, repeatedly trying to fly and hit the side of the tank. I decided to let her go free, so I opened the top of the tank for her and it still took her several tries to fly out of the tank. She immediately landed on a pile of poop and buried it. They are very ungraceful and dumb so I'm not really worried about any of them escaping any time soon :P

Not a behavioral thing, but I found three other burrows in my yard from beetles, when I was a kid I always wondered about that, and now I know what they belong to! Very cool.