Where would you find us at 7am on a bank holiday weekend? Wading around in a pond of course!
We set bottle traps in ponds overnight as part of our great crested newt surveys. Quite often these also catch other pond life, including insects.
This morning one trap contained this; an adult great diving beetle (Dytiscus marginalis) under attack by a larvae of it's own species. It really is dog eat dog in pondworld!
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