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Fletcher Wildlife Garden | all galleries >> Previous FWG blogs >> 2014 Blogs >> FWG Blog: August 2014 > Green lacewing eggs (Chrysoperla sp.)
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01-AUG-2014 Christine Hanrahan

Green lacewing eggs (Chrysoperla sp.)

These tiny dot-sized eggs are suspended from nearly invisible filaments on the underside of an oak leaf. As you can tell, the eggs are being whipped around by the wind, which also made photographing these things nearly impossible. What you may be able to see if you look really closely, is a little aphid, slightly large than the eggs, clinging to one of the filaments above the egg on the right. As if going for a ride! Lacewing larvae eat aphids and the leaves have a good number of Myzocallis aphids for hungry larvae to eat. Thus, a sensible spot for the lacewing adult to lay her eggs.

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