Field Notes: September 6, 2025 Location: Pike Place Market, Seattle, Washington ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Encounter Summary: On a cool stall table I recorded Paradoxoflora pomacea, called by vendors “Orchard Riddle,” a plum-sized beetle lacquered crimson and leaf-green with cream sutures like a puzzle knot. It perched on my palm-held apple, legs cinnamon, antennae fine as wire. At the apple’s wet aroma and the warm halo of my hand, its shell seemed to ignore mechanics: the patterned plates slid and telescop

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