Green Lacewing Debris-Carrying Larvae (Family Chrysopidae)

CENTRAL FLORIDA CRITTER OF THE DAY: Green Lacewing Debris-Carrying Larvae (Family Chrysopidae)

Shown on Florida Native Plant: Bidens alba

It must be lacewing week at my place.  Found lots of larvae cleaning up the stems and leaves and flowers of various plants including Bidens alba, Dogfennel and Fleabane and grasses.

larval and adults are beneficial predators of other insects, especially aphids.

You can really see the pinchers in this photo on a grass

see eggs from prior year:  https://centralfloridacritteroftheday.wordpress.com/2015/07/11/green-lacewing-eggs-family-chrysopidae/

Learn: http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/BENEFICIAL/green_lacewings.htm

looks like a tiny bird dropping on a fleabane leaf

This one on Dogfennel was munching on ants. they cover themselves with the carcasses of the insects they eat.

My take:  https://floridawildlifegardentails.wordpress.com/2015/08/02/did-that-cocoon-just-walk-away/

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• beneficial
• insect
• Lacewing
• predatory