Malachite beetle

I really don't know where the time went today. It was evening before I knew it and I had barely accomplished anything the entire day.

Today's weather suited me much better than the heat that we had the last few days. It was a lovely 20°C and there was a very nice cool breeze. Unfortunately it was also a totally overcast day which was not so good for taking photos. Not only was the light not all that great, there was also very little about worth blipping. Thankfully I spotted this beetle towards the end of my walk with Kuzei, a male Staffordshire who was a recent new arrival at the sanctuary. It was crawling around on the same shrub where I've previously photographed the bee beetle and the two bumble bees. I quickly took the compact camera out of my pocket and managed to take a few shots of it before it disappeared.

Thank you so much for the kind comments and stars on yesterday's Great Crested Grebe blip.