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are these lacewing eggs?
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are these lacewing eggs?
Cumberland County, Maine, USA
July 1, 2008
Size: 1mm, maybe smaller
found these on my dill, you can see they are connected to each other by a crosspiece of silk or whatever that stuff is.

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are these lacewing eggs? are these lacewing eggs?
Contributed by kwisawis on 17 July, 2008 - 6:37pm
Last updated 19 July, 2008 - 1:22am

Yes, green lacewing eggs
(Chrysopidae).
… Charley Eiseman, 18 July, 2008 - 10:26am

They look like lacewing eggs
They look like lacewing eggs to me. I can't think of any other insect that lays suspended eggs like that.
… BeeBee, 18 July, 2008 - 1:26am

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