Tiny beetle

This beetle is so tiny, he dives head first into the centre of the daisy. Luckily I managed to get this just before he went bum up.

And, always a bonus, I've learnt something new. All those yellow bits in the centre are actually tiny flowers themselves.

Here is what I found on the Internet, on a website called Gardenguides.com

Daisies are unusual. What we normally think of as a "daisy flower" is actually a composite made up of collections of two different types of flowers. The centre of the daisy flower is a collection of disk flowers. What we think of as petals are actually individual ray flowers. Each ray or disk flower is an individual flower made up of a stamen, carpel and ovary. The ray flowers, however, are sterile. Only the disk flowers are fertile.

Disk flowers

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