Flatropers Wood insect
19th August 2006, SaturdayI found this creature scuttling across a sweet chestnut leaf in Flatropers Wood this morning. It was approximately 5mm. I saw a number of them scattered in the woodland and took the attached photo as a matter of interest expecting it to be some species of plant hopper. However when I enlarged the photo I saw that it had a pair of pincers protruding from the side and it appeared to be some type of insect carrying a load of jumble. The pincers remind me of an earwig, but Patrick Roper says it is a lacewing larva and the pincers are jaws!
