Beautiful tiger beetle. A couple of mites photo bombed. Got some cool footage of it eating a strawberry. I love these beetles.
Assuming this is a larva burrow.
I see Omus burrows in the middle of trails all the time, but it's interesting to see a couple in the middle of a trail going powdery with all the mtn. bike traffic
Released unharmed after pics
Thought this might be identifiable despite the photo quality, with the brown "cheeks." Or are those symmetrical passenger mites?