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.

Maybe this would have worked if shipping didn't take over 2 weeks? I would not know because as I waited, waited, waited, waited, my plants continued to be devoured by the pests I bought this product to eliminate. Once it finally arrived, I never saw a single larvae emerge -- still waiting and hoping but given it's been 3 weeks, I think that's as dead as the seeds sent. Waste of money.

I tried these on my garden this year and was quite pleased with how effective they were. I watched them attack and eat aphids right out of the package! The adults then continued to lay eggs in the garden and so the pest control has continued all Summer. They were not as effective on my ash tree however, I think some other bugs got to them and there were not enough of them to control the leaf curler aphids. For the veggies and flowers with moderate aphids they worked great though!

For greenhouse during winter

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.

These were great! You can see that they have hatched. Much better than the loose eggs in the open containers. Definitely more of a long term solution so dont expect instant results. Will order these cards again next season!!!!

I followed ALL the directions. I closely inspected every plant every day, and in the end I saw ONE larvae on ONE plant. Nothing else hatched; total waste of money.

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.