Green Lacewing Eggs on Hanging Card - 1000 Count

I definitely recommend following the specific instructions you get in the box in regards to releasing them. I have bought several of these, I prefer the strip release version as they are easier to manage for me personally then the foldable boxes.They have killed off mealy bug infestations, aphid infestations and several spider mite infestations. Especially in windy Arizona where my poor lemon trees seem to fall victim to spider mites once every year or two despite repeatedly using neem oil to prevent them. Added bonus they also help with fungus gnats which drive me nuts every year.I prefer these over lady bugs, mostly because lady bugs tend to fly off pretty quickly and these guys are insaneeee eaters.They are very tiny when first hatching so you might not even notice them at first but they grow pretty fast as they eat.And I get excited when I see the adult lacewings around my garden outside, hopefully laying eggs and keeping my gardens pest free.Before letting the lacewings larvae on your plants, be sure to spray down your plants and use neem oil to get a lot of them. Then let these guys go and give them a few days to demolish the eggs and remaining pests.

I followed ALL the directions. I closely inspected every plant every day, and in the end I saw ONE larvae on ONE plant. Nothing else hatched; total waste of money.

So I usually order the hanging bags with rice hulls and find them difficult to use in my outside beds as I have to keep moving them and have to cover them up when it likely to rain. These came on a hanging card divided into 5 little cards. When it arrived there were already 20+ babies ready to feed which I sprinkled over some tomato shade leaves, then hung the cards around my tomato plants and saw within a few hours more babies creeping out. I am hopeful that this dispersal system will spread these predators more evenly across the plants and result in adults becoming well established over the growing season.For those who say they never saw any hatch, well they are hard to see and like to hide but I usually see even quite heavy infestations diminish with a week or so and once the adults established in the area that new infestations tend to be small and isolated.

When I order predators online, I figure some of them are gonna die, but less than half of them were alive when I got my package. Normally I wouldn’t mind but for the price, I was expecting a little bit better quality and quantity.

My objective: controlling aphids & white flies and possibly spider mites.Immediate learning: you have to control ants before you can use this product.Product arrived this morning, one day late (which is fine). Card with 1,000 eggs is divisible into 6 hanging segments. Deployed the first one about noon onto a Serrano Pepper plant with a white fly infestation. Within minutes (literally) ants had found it and were swarming the card, carrying away the eggs. I rescued the card and repositioned it on a higher branch. Within half an hour ants found it again, destroyed it. Another card survived on another plant in nearby location about 24 hours (overnight was fine) before the ants found it there, too, even though I moved it around several branches during the next day and attempted some ant mitigation. However I did observe several lacewing larvae come to life and scamper off onto the branches before the ants got the card.A third card in a remote location (several stories away on roof) has survived several days so far without ants and I've seen a few larvae. Fingers crossed.To dodge the ants, I am now (a) incubating the larvae in a jar with foliage and some white fly eggs (for food) until some hatch, then spread them on the plants where the ants got the earlier cards. I also separately, when I am available, hang a card on a plant but move it among branches every ten minutes to keep the ants from zeroing in (literally 15 min is too long). These two methods work to get the larvae onto the plants alive, but it is obviously painstaking, probably stupidly time-wasting and I don't know how effective. But still ongoing, will provide one more update.As far as the control of the whiteflies and aphids, I do not notice a difference yet and it has been about four days. At this point I've deployed at least 20-30 live larvae onto the plants that are in the ant zone, which, though not 1,000 larvae, according to wisdom should be more than enough for the size of the plants. We'll see.

I had concerns about the product arriving too late. The seller addressed the problem and got the lacewings to me promptly. The are now hatching on time as preferred

I saw the negative reviews of these critters, and was under the impression that the negative reviews were a result of people not witnessing any live bugs hatch. In my case, they most definately hatched- several were crawling around the package when it arrived in the mail in fact.I deployed them to the most aphid-infested parts of my garden, notably some dill plants that were just covered in aphids. The product description advises "1,000 eggs per 2,500 sq. feet" for gardens, and my garden is roughly 100 sq feet so I should have been covered 25 times over.After attatching the egg cards to the most infested plants, I returned to observe the larva many times per day. After about the 5th day, I never saw another larva again, and throughout that whole period I only ever witnessed 2 aphids being eaten. The dill plants were so covered in aphids, it should have been impossible for the larva to go anywhere without finding a wealth of food. Ultimately they made no impact on my pest problem. I don't see how it is advertised that these eggs cover a 2500 sq ft garden, when in reality they failed to make a difference in a 1 inch radius from where they were deployed.Save your money, these things don't do anything.