You blink and almost a year goes by without a post. That seems to have happened for the last couple of years, but I'm still here and still looking at beetles. But life has been busy, kids almost grown, elderly parents, work and other hobbies have meant that posting here has taken a back seat.
Anyway, I had a new beetle today, a new staph no less. So today is a good day.
This week I'm heading up north to Scotland for a couple if weeks looking at beetles, so today I was airing my tent in the garden in the warmth of the sun, a staph landed on it.
A quick peek under the lens and it looked like a new one for me, and on closer inspection it was.
Achenium depressum. This is a genus with only two UK species. For those of you with amazing memories you'll remeber that I found the other whilst digging in the garden during the first lock down. Both species appear to live underground in cracks in the earth, easier to record in flood debris and pit fall traps but this one was obviously just dispersing in the sunshine. A bit of a looker too.
