One insect I would really like to see in my garden is the lacewing, along with all its life stages, ranging from the beautiful to the beastly. I rarely see the delicate lacewing adult with its ...

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. Surprisingly, ...

The green lacewings, Chrysoperla carnea (Stephens) and Chrysoperla rufilabris (Burmeister), commonly are found throughout North America. Interest in utilizing these beneficial predators as a component ...

At first glance, you might mistake it for a small piece of popcorn crawling over a leaf or flower petal in your garden. But this pest is green lacewing larvae, a well-armed voracious predator that has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Green lacewing eating aphids on a plant - Brett Hondow/Shutterstock Green lacewings look like they could be garden pests, but they ...

Larvae with extremely inflated trunks, fossilized in amber, are giving zoologists insights into the evolution and lifestyle of early lacewings. Larvae with extremely inflated trunks, fossilized in ...

Identifying strange critters and creatures in the garden has become one of my common jobs. Often the photo quality is less than ideal and it's hard, but the latest one was so clear that the mystery ...

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 winged insects, of which there ...

Stuart McCausland came across this little bundle of lichen with legs, scooting across a crape myrtle tree in his yard. It is a lacewing larva, sometimes called a “junk bug” because of the junk it ...

A new study shows that herbivores and their predators have evolved efficient strategies to deal with toxic plant secondary metabolites. Caterpillars of the diamondback moth deploy a specific gut ...

Chemical defenses of plants not only affect the growth and development of herbivores, but also, indirectly, the next consumers in the food chain. A new study shows that herbivores and their predators ...