The small visitor

From time to time, this tiny beetle (or others very much like it) pays a visit to my computer. Today, as usual, it appeared quite suddenly in the middle of the page I had just loaded in my browser and, for a moment, I thought it was a fault on the page! Then I recognised the small visitor.

It (or they) appears suddenly, from where I do not know. It then runs across the screen or stops and remains still for a couple of minutes. Then off it goes again, following an erratic path. It may spread its wings and fly down onto the keyboard.

Finally, it may spread its wings again and disappear or, as today, run to the edge and disappear behind or under the laptop.

I call it the small visitor and it is indeed small, perhaps 2-3 millimetres long.

I marvel at how something so small can not only run about but also fly and apparently decide where to go next.