Well, a rarity: this fine beetle, Platystomos albinus, is an Anthribid, a member of a family somewhere between the wood-boring Longhorns and the pointy-nosed Weevils. It has plenty of odd features, not least that it is camouflaged as a bird-dropping. It is “nationally scarce (Nb)” and an “Index of Continuity Species”. This is a male – it’s easy to tell as the species is sexually dimorphic: the males have enormous long antennae nearly the length of the body; the females have antennae about as long as head and thorax together.  And this specimen seems (?) to be bleeding from the back of the thorax, possibly an instance of reflex bleeding (autohaemorrhaging) to warn off predators: perhaps the blood is toxic or irritant as it is in several families of beetle.  The larvae live in dead standing wood; the adults in fungus-infested Beech or Alder – we have a very few Beech here, and no Alder, and the insect was nowhere near either species.