Anne Elliott's photos with the keyword: Green Lacewing

Oops, I was hoping that this photo might look a bit sharper on Fickr, but I guess I just missed focussing on the Lacewing. Steve, a Professor down in the States, who is working at the University of Calgary's Barrier Lake Centre for the summer, took us on a butterfly walk on Sunday. This was one of the tiny insects we saw during this walk at the Open House.

Found this little guy on the wall leading down to my basement. This is an enlarged photo of it - the actual insect was only small. I like its colour and its veined wings. Wondering if it is some kind of Lacewing.

John Acorn, in his book "Bugs of Alberta" describes these Green Lacewings as "beautiful, smelly and mean"! Lacewings are predators and eat mainly aphids.They are "friends of the gardener." "Young Lacewings are so vicious that the mother Lacewing lays each egg on the top of a long, slender stalk, so that the first larva to hatch doesn't eat all of its brothers and sisters before they can get out of the egg."