100 Million-year-old straight-jawed lacewing larvae with enormously inflated trunks represent the oldest cases of extreme physogastry in insects. Scientific Reports , 2022; 12 (1) DOI: 10.1038 ...

Maintain habitat diversity: A mix of tall grasses, shrubs, flowering herbs, and ground cover attracts lacewings. Avoid broad-spectrum insecticides: Chemicals not only injure the pests they are ...

Jeff Mitton Natural Selections. It was a windy, cold day in early March, so the lacewings could hardly move, and only a few of the flies responded to the sudden sunlight.

Release the lacewings! The delicate-looking flying insects could be the hard-nosed eating machines bugged out New Yorkers need to combat the aphid apocalypse, experts said.. The larvae of the ...

For years native ladybug Hippodamia convergens species have been one of my major go-to beneficial insects used to help get rid of all kinds of pest insects. But over the ...

Studying the subtle differences in the lacewing’s ‘songs’ has triggered the discovery of numerous cryptic species across all of the Northern Hemisphere and large portions of Africa. So far we have ...

A winged insect found on the side of a big-box store has been identified as the rare Jurassic-era giant lacewing. While the insect used to be widespread in eastern North America, this sighting is ...

A rare giant lacewing insect, unseen in eastern North America since the 1950s, was found outside a Walmart in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

The giant lacewing's disappearance. The giant lacewing vanished in the 1950s from eastern North America, where it was formerly widespread, according to the paper Skvarla coauthored that was ...

Lacewings 101 The Chrysopidae family, commonly known as. ... Maintain habitat diversity: A mix of tall grasses, shrubs, flowering herbs, and ground cover attracts lacewings.