Chrysopidae

Green Lacewings

CLASSIFICATION

Main Group: Animal

Sublevel 1: Non-chordate Invertebrate

Sublevel 2: Invertebrate with bilateral symmetry

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Phylum: Arthropoda

Class: Insecta

Order: Neuroptera

Family: Chrysopidae

STATUS IN NEW ENGLAND

Invasive, Pest, or Pathogen?: No

BIOLOGY/ECOLOGY

Feeding Type: Heterotroph

HABITAT

PHOTOS OF Chrysopidae

Chrysopidae

Egg, attached via a stalk to the underside of a leaf of common milkweed

Essex County, MA

Date: 2018-08-29

Chrysopidae

Larva, debris-carrying, on common milkweed

Essex County, MA

Date: 2018-08-29

Chrysopidae

Larva, debris-carrying, on glossy buckthorn

Essex County, MA

Date: 2017-08-14

Chrysopidae

Larva, debris-carrying, on wild sarsaparilla

Cumberland County, ME

Date: 2018-08-01