Saturday 26 October 2013

Lacewing

Just locking up the shed when this Green Lacewing crash landed next to me:

 Lacewing

These are most welcome insects to have around any garden. They lay up to 20 eggs a day in the Spring. Each larvae can eat up to 50 aphids a day. They will also eat other insect pests such as thrips and red spider mite. The adults live on nectar, pollen and honeydew.

4 comments:

  1. The light caught this beautifully or you did. They are grand.

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  2. Natural lighting Adrian. Camera and I shaded the area so most light was from the sides. Pure luck as I only got one chance to photo it with the Nikon..

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  3. We get lots of these in out shed but often they are unfortunate enough to crash into a spider web. Great photo.

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Thank you for visiting. Hope you enjoyed the pictures. Any comment, or correction to any information or identification I get wrong, is most welcome. John

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