Monday
Jul142014
Lacewing

An orange- brown lacewing, probably Nothochrysa capitata (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae). The white blob on its abdomen might be pollen from a flower it has visited (more likely a spermatophore - see Graham Calow's comment below).
Photo taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2014-07-06.
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