My strange winter habit is to read something about #SlowWorms (they are hibernating right now and I miss them! 💚​)
I found this paper today called 'Great capricorn beetle-created corridors as refuges for lizards' https://herpetozoa.pensoft.net/article/81190/download/pdf/
It describes how common lizards, sand lizards and slow worms use the holes (corridors) bored by gc beetles for predator evasion, as well as maybe hunting, thermoregulation and hibernating. Another reason to have a log pile! 🦎🎄​​ #herpetology