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Common Green Lacewing larvae

Chrysoperla carnea

Description:

Lacewing larvae, sometimes called "aphid lions" eat many small insects as they grow. Besides aphids, they eat other small insects, including caterpillars, butterfly eggs, small beetles, scale insects, leaf hoppers, thrips, small flies, and other small insects and eggs. They also eat mites and sometimes eat each other!

Habitat:

Green Lacewings live in fields, gardens, and forest edges. They like to be where they can camouflage with green leaves and stems.

Notes:

Found mostly on silk cotton tree saplings in my yard(reason why I could find them, the fully grown trees are totally out of reach)

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surekha
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surekha

Haryana, India

Spotted on Sep 16, 2013
Submitted on Sep 17, 2013

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