How to Use lacewing in a Sentence

lacewing

noun
  • The lacewings doing the work the spray rig used to do at Booker.
    — Michelle Williams, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • Brown lacewing eggs are not on silken stalks but are instead attached to surfaces.
    — Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 3 Aug. 2020
  • Parasitic wasps, flies, lacewings, spiders, and birds will feed on them.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Lady beetles and green lacewings feed on small hornworms and hornworm eggs.
    — Barbara Gillette, The Spruce, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Green lacewings are also attracted to this plant, and their larvae feed on adult aphids.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 22 May 2026
  • The tiny lacewings come packaged in a honeycomb of cardboard.
    — Catalina Righter, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 18 July 2019
  • Eggs of green lacewings are affixed to hairlike stalks about a half-inch high, usually in a group on a leaf.
    — Margaret Lauterbach, idahostatesman, 24 May 2017
  • The goal of the lacewings is not to wipe out the leafhopper population.
    — Michelle Williams, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • But there is precedent for the rediscovery of giant lacewings.
    — Emily Schmall, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The recent discovery of the lacewing in Arkansas is the first record of the species in the state.
    — Taylor Nicioli, CNN, 3 Mar. 2023
  • At the same time, calendula attracts ladybugs and lacewings, which feed on aphids.
    — Sj McShane, Martha Stewart, 26 June 2026
  • Both the adult lady beetle and its crocodile-shape larvae feed on aphids, as do the larvae of lacewings and syrphid flies.
    — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2025
  • The daisy-like blooms also attract parasitic wasps, lacewings, and hoverflies that will feed on harmful pests.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Lacewings Both adult lacewings and their larvae eat aphids, caterpillars, mealybugs, scales, thrips, and whiteflies.
    — The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 11 May 2016
  • The insect that kindly died in a blob of tree resin in early-Cretaceous Spain was a young green lacewing.
    — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 10 Dec. 2012
  • Outdoors, natural predators, such as lacewings and lady beetles, help keep whiteflies in check.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Some lacewing larvae, predators of pest insects, gather bits of lichen into a turtle-like shell for camouflage.
    — Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Both love moist, rich soil, and dill's cheerful yellow flowers will attract ladybugs and green lacewings, which feed on the pests that attack spinach.
    — Heather Bien, Southern Living, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Introduction On warm summer nights, green lacewings flutter around bright lanterns in backyards and at campsites.
    — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 26 July 2023
  • Ladybugs, lacewings and other predatory insects can be released or encouraged to come in on their own.
    — oregonlive, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Let’s also look after our helpers — the lady beetles, earthworms, birds, bees, syrphid flies and lacewings that busily help our gardens thrive.
    — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Apr. 2026
  • For example, lacewings are important predators of pest insects and overwinter in leaf and debris piles.
    — Special To The Denver Post, Denver Post, 31 Aug. 2025
  • In bloom, this plant attracts hoverflies, lacewings, parasitic wasps, and ladybugs to your garden.
    — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 May 2026
  • Release predatory insects like lacewings or ladybugs on outdoor or greenhouse plants.
    — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Protect To control pests like aphids and whiteflies, introduce ladybugs and lacewings.
    — Heather Arndt Anderson, Sunset Magazine, 16 Mar. 2020
  • The researchers aren’t exactly sure why giant lacewings seemingly vanished from half of the continent.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Angelica, coreopsis, cosmos, and sweet alyssum will bring lacewings to your garden.
    — The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 11 May 2016
  • Look for and conserve natural enemies such as predaceous bugs, lacewings, lady beetles, and syrphids.
    — The San Diego Union Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Jan. 2025
  • Marigolds can help attract pollinators and beneficial insects, such as lacewings, to your vegetable patch.
    — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 May 2026
  • By attracting ladybugs and lacewings, cilantro brings in the main predators for potato-eating insects like aphids, mites, whiteflies, and thrips.
    — Heather Bien, Southern Living, 23 Feb. 2026

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