The Green Lacewing will
eat almost anything that moves and is a little smaller than it is.
This makes them a great tool for insect eradication. The only
problem is that as soon as all of the food is gone, the Green Lacewings go
off somewhere else to find some more. I have used them to eat
aphids, psyllids and whiteflies. With the giant whitefly, a
combination of spraying off the hairs with water and releasing the Green
Lacewings helped a lot. But you have keep spraying off the hairs
because the lacewings get tangled in them. It is recommended that
lacewings be released every 2 weeks until they have taken care of the
problems. The object is to flood the local environment with
predators until there is no prey.
Each lacewing larvae
will eat as many as 200 eggs or other insects. And each adult will
lay as many as 200 eggs. There is a lot of lacewing potential.
Adults live 4 to 6 weeks. Eggs take about 5 days to pupate.
Larvae are the biggest eaters and live in this stage for 1 to 3 weeks.
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