A great silver beetle swimming through pond weed at Priory Water, Leicestershire. Photographed in a tank and released. May

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Great silver beetle swimming through pond weed. Photographed in a specialist photography tank at Wat Tyler Country Park in Essex and subsequently returned to the wild.

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Size: 5100px × 3386px
Location: Wat Tyler Country Park Basildon Essex England UK United Kingdom Europe
Photo credit: © DP Wildlife Invertebrates / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: animal, beetle, ecology, environment, great, hydrophilus, insect, invertebrate, nature, piceus, silver, wildlife