Common Green Lacewing larvae
Chrysoperla carnea
28.0983, 77.0394
Field Notes
Description:
Lacewing larvae, sometimes called "aphid lions" eat many small insects as they grow. Besides aphids, they eat other small insects, including caterpillars, butterfly eggs, small beetles, scale insects, leaf hoppers, thrips, small flies, and other small insects and eggs. They also eat mites and sometimes eat each other!
Habitat:
Green Lacewings live in fields, gardens, and forest edges. They like to be where they can camouflage with green leaves and stems.
Notes:
Found mostly on silk cotton tree saplings in my yard(reason why I could find them, the fully grown trees are totally out of reach)
Species ID Suggestions
Spotted for Missions
Photographed
PublishedSeptember 17, 2013
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