Lacewing larvae beginning to roam, having just climbed off the egg stalk, seen blurred on the left.

A just hatched Lacewing larvae on the egg no larger than the head of a sewing needle. Image cropped and Sharpened in Picasa.

Mother Nature has developed this ingenious method to perpetuate the Lacewing. Immature lacewings are fierce hunters, and if eggs hatched,
the young would quickly devour one another. The female Lacewing deposits each egg at the end of a stalk, so by the time a newly hatched
Aphid Wolf or Aphid Lion climbs down, its brothers and sisters have already wandered away.
Green Lacewing Larvae, known as an Aphid Wolf will often cover themselves with debris including the empty skins of their victims, as camouflage.

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