I felt something land in my hair and whooshed it out on to the path. This is the Common Green Shield Bug, Palomina prasina.
It is one of the many heteropteran bugs whose wings overlap at the back with a transparent patch.
It landed near some ants who immediately took an interest. You can see one of them has already climbed aboard, hoping to fly business class. The shield bug shook it off and moved on. Maybe it felt a bit the same as I did when a shield bug landed on me!
After its adventure, no doubt it was soon sucking the juice out of some plant or other with its needle like proboscis.
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