{"id":722,"date":"2016-09-19T13:36:42","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T21:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/?p=722"},"modified":"2017-11-10T07:30:24","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T15:30:24","slug":"lacewig-eggs-in-denver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/lacewig-eggs-in-denver\/","title":{"rendered":"Lacewing Eggs in Denver"},"content":{"rendered":"

I spotted these mysterious eggs at our community garden in Denver, and I took this photo and “googled” eggs on stalks and low-and-behold… I found out that they are Lacewing eggs! Neat!<\/p>\n

\"Lacewig<\/a><\/p>\n

Lacewings are great in the garden, adults feed only on nectar, pollen, and aphid honeydew, but the larvae are active predators \u2013 they are similar in appearance to an alligator with pincers like tiny ice tongs \u2013 these bugs vigorously attack its prey, injecting a paralyzing venom then drawing out the body fluids of its victim. Besides aphids, they feed on just about any soft-bodied pest they can \u201cgrab,\u201d including citrus mealybugs, cottony cushion scale, spider mites, thrips, caterpillars, insect eggs, etc.<\/p>\n

Here’s a Lacewing adult:<\/p>\n

\"Denver<\/a><\/p>\n

Avoid pesticides and you’ll find that nature has it’s own pest control!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I spotted these mysterious eggs at our community garden in Denver, and I took this photo and “googled” eggs on stalks and low-and-behold… I found out that they are Lacewing eggs! Neat! Lacewings are great in the garden, adults feed only on nectar, pollen, and aphid honeydew, but the larvae are active predators \u2013 they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":877,"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions\/877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}