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- noun Plural form of
lacewing .
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Examples
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It's the perfect setting for "illustrious guests," we're told -- namely lacewings, beetles, spiders, and bees.
Fast Company 2010
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Because it eats so many aphids, its staple diet, as well as other ladybirds, it has threatened the number of native ladybirds and species, such as lacewings, which also eat aphids.
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
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But that's what we kids grew up calling lacewings, so that's what I still call them.)
grouse Diary Entry grouse 2005
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It is, however, a potential threat to our native ladybirds and other aphid predators such as lacewings and hoverfly larvae.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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I think you missed the key word in mary lacewings comment, Kenneth.
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Mr. Hull, at left, the company's horticulture expert, has brought in predator bugs such as green lacewings and nematodes and plant
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Since arriving six months ago, Mr. Hull has brought in predator bugs such as green lacewings and nematodes and plants that help control the problem.
Fish Are Jumping 2010
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Not too many people know that lacewings smell of camphor, and that they can bite HARD.
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Beneficial Insect Controls Green lacewings aphids, mealy bugs, thrips, spider mites Ladybugs aphids, Colorado potato beetle Praying mantis almost any insect Ground beetles caterpillars that attack trees and shrubs Parasitic nematodes
Pest management 2009
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I keep cut canes, tied in a bundle, all around the garden as a safe winter harbour for ladybugs and lacewings.
Operation Garden Storm aka TBTAM 2007
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