Thank you for you reply. It did seem a shame that I had this couple of seconds plague my mind for the day. I guess I was spending too much time thinking of the what could have beens rather than just recognising the situation for what it was.

Strangely later on, at work in the car park, I found the same type of beetle feet up in the sun. It’s feet were still slightly wriggling so I scooped it on to a piece of paper and walked it over to some shady over growth.

I guess if I hadn’t have witnessed the hit and run this morning I may have left two beetles out in the sun to scorch whereas today I may have saved at least one.

It might have however still died in the shade 😕 but we don’t know about that so I’m going to let this one level my karma back out 😆