If your landscape includes numerous flowers and native shrubs and trees, you probably have beneficial lacewings in your garden. Several species may inhabit the same garden, including large and small ...
But the first thing I found was an interesting insect that wasn’t a moth. It had a pale green body with black markings, a bit over a centimetre long, and four very large wings folded over its body ...
Langstone, Hampshire: This species will overwinter here and stock the garden with voracious ‘aphid lions’ Once the sun has set, there’s a chill in the air, but it’s still mild enough to leave my ...
The order Neuroptera, which encompasses lacewings, antlions and their kin, exhibits an extraordinary evolutionary narrative spanning over 100 million years. Fossil discoveries, combined with recent ...