Image: Blue eyes Lacewing eggs
Eggs of the Blue eyes lacewing
- Photographer:
- Tony Knight
- Rights:
- © Tony Knight
- Common name:
- Blue eyes nymphes
- Scientific name:
- Nymphes myrmeleonoides
- Family:
- Nymphidae
- Order:
- Neuroptera
- Location:
- Hallidays Point, NSW
- Date taken:
- 2 February 2011
Additional information
These lacewings are easily indentifyable by the horseshoe shape of the egg cluster and by the appearance of the adults. The larvae are ambush predators with traplike jaws feeding on small invertebrates found in the leaf litter.
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