How to Use lacewing in a Sentence

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• The recent discovery of the lacewing in Arkansas is the first record of the species in the state.
  — Taylor Nicioli, CNN, 3 Mar. 2023
• Then the lacewing eats the stunned, farted-upon termite.
  — Brian Resnick, Vox, 3 Apr. 2018
• The tiny lacewings come packaged in a honeycomb of cardboard.
  — Catalina Righter, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 18 July 2019
• Eggs of green lacewings are affixed to hairlike stalks about a half-inch high, usually in a group on a leaf.
  — Margaret Lauterbach, idahostatesman, 24 May 2017
• Brown lacewing eggs are not on silken stalks but are instead attached to surfaces.
  — Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 3 Aug. 2020
• The insect that kindly died in a blob of tree resin in early-Cretaceous Spain was a young green lacewing.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 10 Dec. 2012
• The giant lacewing, or Polystoechotes punctata, is a large insect from the Jurassic Era.
  — Emily Schmall, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
• The Polystoechotes punctata or giant lacewing is the first of its kind recorded in eastern North America in over 50 years — and the first record of the species ever in the state.
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
• But there is precedent for the rediscovery of giant lacewings.
  — Emily Schmall, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
• Lacewings Both adult lacewings and their larvae eat aphids, caterpillars, mealybugs, scales, thrips, and whiteflies.
  — The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 11 May 2016
• Giant lacewings were once found across the entire continent, but by the 1950s, the insect had been destroyed in the eastern part of North America.
  — Li Cohen, CBS News, 1 Mar. 2023
• This pest has insufficient enemies in the garden, although minute pirate bugs and the larvae of the lacewing and syrphid fly are predators.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2022
• The lacewing is among more than 1 million insects in the museum’s collection, each pinned and displayed with a tag detailing the date and location where it was found.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2021
• Minute pirate bugs and the larvae of the lacewing and syrphid fly do attack them, but in our gardens right now, chilli thrips are pests without sufficient enemies.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 July 2021
• Some lacewing larvae, predators of pest insects, gather bits of lichen into a turtle-like shell for camouflage.
  — Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 17 Mar. 2022
• Lady beetles and lacewings have shown an appetite for feeding on the scale and displayed some efficacy in attacking it, Chen said, but not yet in a way that can halt its spread.
  — Joe Heim, Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2023
• Protect To control pests like aphids and whiteflies, introduce ladybugs and lacewings.
  — Heather Arndt Anderson, Sunset Magazine, 16 Mar. 2020
• At the coloring book table were photos of a brown lacewing, a bug that Darwin collected on his expedition.
  — Roger Showley, sandiegouniontribune.com, 11 Feb. 2018
• The researchers aren’t exactly sure why giant lacewings seemingly vanished from half of the continent.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Mar. 2023
• Directing a strong stream of water on the undersides of the plants is about the only cultural control and that, with the addition of perhaps obtaining and releasing some lacewings, might be the first thing to try.
  — oregonlive, 26 Feb. 2023
• This magnificent plant is the first new species of plant discovered on Facebook, following on the heels of a new species of lacewing that was described after a photo of it was posted to the picture sharing site Flickr.
  — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 3 Aug. 2015
• Scientists suspect eyespots first evolved in Jurassic lacewings and then a second time in modern butterflies.
  — Rachael Lallensack, Smithsonian, 7 June 2019
• These include the larvae of ladybugs and lacewings, which will chow on plant-destroying aphids all day, and parasitic wasps, which will leave humans alone but take down caterpillars, beetles, and flies.
  — Timothy Dahl, Popular Mechanics, 8 May 2017
• Commercially available beneficial insects, such as ladybugs, green lacewing and the spined soldier bug, will feed on pest eggs.
  — The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 1 June 2017
• Angelica, coreopsis, cosmos, and sweet alyssum will bring lacewings to your garden.
  — The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 11 May 2016
• Not only moths and butterflies undergo complete metamorphosis; so, too, do beetles, flies, wasps, fleas, and lacewings.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2023
• Soon, the natural enemies — which include the lacewings, lady beetles, adult wasps, insect larvae, earwigs and birds — will arrive to assist us in aphid management.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 May 2023
• Gradwohl’s favorite specimen is a brown lacewing, a small fly-like insect that was collected by Charles Darwin himself on the island of Tasmania in February 1863.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2021
• Mary Alice and Terry encourage the presence of natural predators such as ladybugs and lacewings, whose larvae gobble up troublemakers like spider mites and aphids.
  — Rhonda Fleming Hayes, Southern Living, 16 June 2023
• Fossils of insects called lacewings offer a fascinating example.
  — Jakob Vinther, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2017

Last Updated: 30 Oct 2024