This is the last of my new invertebrate finds from 2025, and it may or may not be the beetle Athous bicolor, found in shrubs around the edge of a local recreation field last July.

My specimen appears to have the features described on the Naturespot website – ‘quite an elongated species’, ‘elytra are brown in colour with ridges and pits running down their length’, ‘pronotum is slightly darker’, ‘legs and antennae are unicolourous with the rest of the insect and the antennae are very long’ – but their identification difficulty indicator is red, meaning the features are not as clear as the description indicates and/or there are other very similar species.

Still, it was an interesting beetle to find and photograph. This species is generally found in grassy, shrubby areas, sometimes feeding on umbellifer flowers or just sitting in the sun on long grass stems. Good luck if you find one and want to identify it!