A small crop of a quick photo with the iPhone:
At least it stayed in view while I fetched the Nikon compact camera and managed to take a few more photos. These shots are all small crops from the originals.
I am pretty sure this is a diving beetle going by the size (about 8mm), colour, shape and the length of the back legs. I wonder what it was doing out of the pond. I understand they are good fliers so it probably fancied a change of environment.
Yes John it's one of the Agabus ones. I only see the larger Dytiscus marginalis ones. They are about an inch long with tan strips at the edges of the thorax and wing cases. The little devils can really nip and they eat tadpoles. Nice shots.
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