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.

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!!!!

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.

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.

So I usually order the hanging bags with rice hulls and find them difficult to use in my outside beds as I have to keep moving them and have to cover them up when it likely to rain. These came on a hanging card divided into 5 little cards. When it arrived there were already 20+ babies ready to feed which I sprinkled over some tomato shade leaves, then hung the cards around my tomato plants and saw within a few hours more babies creeping out. I am hopeful that this dispersal system will spread these predators more evenly across the plants and result in adults becoming well established over the growing season. For those who say they never saw any hatch, well they are hard to see and like to hide but I usually see even quite heavy infestations diminish with a week or so and once the adults established in the area that new infestations tend to be small and isolated.

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.

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!