Resurgence is on a video call with a rainbow stag beetle, held up to the camera by the best-selling children’s author M.G. Leonard. Almost the size of her hand, the beetle is an iridescent swirl of colours. There are hundreds more beetles in Leonard’s home, although, admittedly, at the time of year when we talk – early January – these are only the carcasses of beetles past.
Leonard tells me many beetles live for only a few months in their beetle form, and that the winter months are simply too cold for them to survive. But in the warmer months, they scuttle around tanks in her UK home. One beetle, ...
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