Anna spotted this crawling up a grass stem in the garden yesterday, so I thought I'd post about it.
Quite an unremarkable ground beetle, but very distinctive with a red/orange pronotum, sandwiched between the black head (melanocephalus) and black elytra.
This is a very small ground beetle, which prefers sandy soils (like our garden), often found under stones during the day, and is nocturnal in habit, lie most ground beetles.
It doesn't seem to like living in Scotland, Wales or Eire for some reason...!
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