Green Lacewing Eggs on Hanging Card - 1000 Count

I definitely recommend following the specific instructions you get in the box in regards to releasing them. I have bought several of these, I prefer the strip release version as they are easier to manage for me personally then the foldable boxes.They have killed off mealy bug infestations, aphid infestations and several spider mite infestations. Especially in windy Arizona where my poor lemon trees seem to fall victim to spider mites once every year or two despite repeatedly using neem oil to prevent them. Added bonus they also help with fungus gnats which drive me nuts every year.I prefer these over lady bugs, mostly because lady bugs tend to fly off pretty quickly and these guys are insaneeee eaters.They are very tiny when first hatching so you might not even notice them at first but they grow pretty fast as they eat.And I get excited when I see the adult lacewings around my garden outside, hopefully laying eggs and keeping my gardens pest free.Before letting the lacewings larvae on your plants, be sure to spray down your plants and use neem oil to get a lot of them. Then let these guys go and give them a few days to demolish the eggs and remaining pests.

Instructions are very vague, I had nothing hatch out of 1500 eggs the seller says I would not able to see them once they hatch so it's kind of like I feel they sold me snake oil buyer beware.

Restored balance to my developments aphid and scale infested complex.The cards arrived in warm weather and one or two of the babies already hatched running around and reminded me of the creatures and Star Trek 2.this on top of the previous shipment really wiped out the aphids that were killing everything on my block.there were so many aphids, the lacewings Surely had a lot to eat and probably reproduced and I even saw some adult green lacewings flying around recently. and I've been seeing almost no aphids after a few months which is a complete reversal from the last few years and I released a whole bunch of them on my tree in front of my house had scale on it.

When I order predators online, I figure some of them are gonna die, but less than half of them were alive when I got my package. Normally I wouldn’t mind but for the price, I was expecting a little bit better quality and quantity.

My objective: controlling aphids & white flies and possibly spider mites.Immediate learning: you have to control ants before you can use this product.Product arrived this morning, one day late (which is fine). Card with 1,000 eggs is divisible into 6 hanging segments. Deployed the first one about noon onto a Serrano Pepper plant with a white fly infestation. Within minutes (literally) ants had found it and were swarming the card, carrying away the eggs. I rescued the card and repositioned it on a higher branch. Within half an hour ants found it again, destroyed it. Another card survived on another plant in nearby location about 24 hours (overnight was fine) before the ants found it there, too, even though I moved it around several branches during the next day and attempted some ant mitigation. However I did observe several lacewing larvae come to life and scamper off onto the branches before the ants got the card.A third card in a remote location (several stories away on roof) has survived several days so far without ants and I've seen a few larvae. Fingers crossed.To dodge the ants, I am now (a) incubating the larvae in a jar with foliage and some white fly eggs (for food) until some hatch, then spread them on the plants where the ants got the earlier cards. I also separately, when I am available, hang a card on a plant but move it among branches every ten minutes to keep the ants from zeroing in (literally 15 min is too long). These two methods work to get the larvae onto the plants alive, but it is obviously painstaking, probably stupidly time-wasting and I don't know how effective. But still ongoing, will provide one more update.As far as the control of the whiteflies and aphids, I do not notice a difference yet and it has been about four days. At this point I've deployed at least 20-30 live larvae onto the plants that are in the ant zone, which, though not 1,000 larvae, according to wisdom should be more than enough for the size of the plants. We'll see.

I had concerns about the product arriving too late. The seller addressed the problem and got the lacewings to me promptly. The are now hatching on time as preferred

I have had this hanging in my plants for over 5 weeks... nope, they don't hatch. Considering the extra costs for shipping and the product being a failure; I have decided to warn ⚠️ others, save your money 💰!

My first post: Two days after arrival, tons of lacewings hatched. The strips are easy to hang on plants. I’m ordering more of these!!!Updated post: Turns out, we only had one burst of maybe 20 lacewings. I put almost the entire package on one tomato plant. Three weeks later, that plant became infested with spider mites and I had to put it out of its misery. The lacewings did nothing or they didn’t hatch.