Re: Lacewings
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Lacewings
- From: M*@teamzeon.com
- Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 08:00:11 -0400
margaret
lauterbach To: perennials@mallorn.com
<mlaute@micron.net cc:
> Subject: Re: Lacewings
Sent by:
owner-perennials@m
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04/14/2000 03:30
PM
Please respond to
perennials
At 02:37 PM 4/14/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>
>/Thanks for your answer. I will hope they are really in my neighborhood.
>I've not seen anything that looks the insect pictured but perhaps they
hide
>when I go to my garden, then return as soon as I've gone back inside.
>
They're small and fragile, easy to overlook. Eggs are laid on stalks, one
to a stalk. One kind of lacewing lays eggs on stalks that hang down, the
other kind stand straight up. Did you ever see a perfect little funnel in
the ground and let grains of sand roll down and discover some critter in
the bottom grappling with the sand? That's the larva of the brown lacewing,
which some call an ant lion, others may call it a doodlebug.
/ Yes, I certainly know doodlebugs. When we were children my father told
us that you could call doodlebugs and they would come up out of the ground.
We did, and they did.
I've seldom
seen the eggs, but when I do, that's an area that gets skipped for pruning.
Margaret L
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