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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Antlions, Lacewings, and Allies (Neuroptera) » Lacewings and Allies (Hemerobiiformia) » Green Lacewings (Chrysopidae) » Typical Green Lacewings (Chrysopinae) » Chrysopini » Common Green Lacewings (Chrysoperla) » carnea-group (Chrysoperla carnea-group) » Weeping Green Lacewing (Chrysoperla plorabunda)
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Tiny insect with large fangs, like an earwig but backwards - Chrysoperla plorabunda
Copyright © 2013 edy

Tiny insect with large fangs, like an earwig but backwards - Chrysoperla plorabunda
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
July 16, 2013
Size: 4-5 mm in length
The bug was found on a co-worker who had been sitting in the grass at lunch. Very small insect. By the time I took the photo, a part of one of the hind legs may have come off. At first I thought it was an earwig, but then I noticed the "fangs" were on the head of the insect (like a termite) and not on the rear-end (like on an earwig).
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Contributed by edy on 19 July, 2013 - 9:03pm
Last updated 18 April, 2021 - 12:51am

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Moved from Unidentified Naked Larvae.
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Lacewing larva!
I currently have them in all developmental stages scurrying around on my fence -- trying to eat rather than being eaten!
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