It was the eggs of the green lacewing — one of our most important beneficial insects. Adult lacewings are lacy, light green or brown, and have lustrous eyes, long antennae and heavily veined wings.

Nicknamed “aphid wolves,” lacewings are beneficial insects with a voracious appetite for common pests. These generalist predators consume various prey in their larval and adult stages.

The larvae of lacewings, of which there are thousands of species, devour just about everything in their path, experts said. De Agostini via Getty Images The delicate-looking flying insects could ...

"The ones you're most likely to see include lady beetles, ground beetles, lacewings, hover flies, a couple of true bugs and a few tiny wasps. These can be divided into two groups: those that eat ...

When I returned the next day to photograph overwintering paper wasps, I found only more fragments of wasps, but hundreds of flies and dozens of green lacewings. It was a windy, cold day in early ...