I found this beetle last week in the parking lot

at work. I am always surprised to find aquatic

beetles in areas some distance from water. Twice

I have found Giant Water Bugs, a creature I first

encountered in the pages of Annie Dillard's

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek a couple of blocks from

my office. I assume they mistake the dark asphalt

for water. This was considerably smaller than the

Giant Water Bug Lethocerus americanus.

I have identified it as a Mid-Sized Diving Beetle

Colymbetes sculptilis

If I am mistaken please let me know.

" Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery,

like the idle, curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face

of a leaf. We must somehow take a wider view,

look at the whole landscape, really see it... "

 Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

                         Annie Dillard