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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) » Leucochrysini » Leucochrysa » subgenus Nodita (Leucochrysa subgenus Nodita) » Lichen-carrying Green Lacewing (Leucochrysa pavida)
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Small linchen covered insect - Leucochrysa pavida
Copyright © 2010 Gary Budnik

Small linchen covered insect - Leucochrysa pavida
Howell, Monmouth County, New Jersey, USA
April 4, 2010
I see these things every spring. They appear to be a tiny insect with camoflauge put together from linchen and other plants. Its got little pincers and is very slow moving.
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Contributed by Gary Budnik on 4 April, 2010 - 5:33pm
Last updated 21 March, 2021 - 5:41pm

Moved
Moved from Unidentified Debris-Carrying Larvae.
… Jonathan Hoskins, 21 November, 2020 - 1:01am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 5 April, 2010 - 12:01pm login or register to post comments

Thanks
Thanks for the info. I had thought it was linchen because i usually saw these on oak tree trunks
… Gary Budnik, 4 April, 2010 - 6:25pm login or register to post comments

A lacewing larva
Either greeen lacewing or brown. They carry around the dried corpses of their victims as camouflage.
… Michael C. Thomas, 4 April, 2010 - 5:39pm login or register to post comments

 
Green lacewing, I think.
According to the Guide, larvae of Brown Lacewings do not carry debris.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 4 April, 2010 - 5:55pm login or register to post comments

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