This little Olive? crawled out of my fishing bag....presumably hatched in there?

Can anyone identify/confirm if it is a type of olive please?

many Thanks Peter






---------- Post added at 10:14 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:12 AM ----------

PS original photo much clearer, shows red/green body segmentation but photo size reduced to post.

Thanks, Peter

The picture is very small but it looks more like a Lacewing than an Olive.

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I concur Lace wing



Usually around the water side vegetation eating aphids..... they are great carnivores

I agree, a Lacewing or what Alfred Ronald in Fly Fishers Entomology (1868) called a Gold Eyed Gauze Wing.

OB

Thanks for the replies.....I agree it is a lacewing, should have thought of that first (some people are a bit stupid, aren't they?).

Only problem now is finding out how to post reasonable size picture!

Many Thanks, Peter

What software are you using?

I re-size to 800 pixels long side with preserve aspect ratio, and set resolution to 0 pixels (PPI) in IrfanView or 1 pixel in Photoshop (PS doesn't let you set to zero). Save as .jpg and set compression so that the size comes out around 200 KB.

HTH.

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