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Lacewing eggs

Photo by RachaelB
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Field Notes

Description:

Eggs are deposited at night, singly or in small groups; one female produces some 100–200 eggs. Eggs are placed on plants, usually where aphids are present nearby in numbers. Each egg is hung on a slender stalk about 1 cm long, usually on the underside of a leaf.

Notes:

Found on the underside of a Kangaroo apple leaf. 2 dozen tiny eggs (1mm), each hanging from a single thread.

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Chrysopidae

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Comments (3)
RachaelB
Cool. I love how I have a picture of an insect from Africa and then get home and find some eggs in Melbourne - have no idea what either of them are and then find out they are from the same insect.
MartinL
These are the eggs of a lacewing.

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