Lacewing eggs (top, right) are suspended at the tips of long, erect stalks.

Lacewing larvae are alligator-shaped with long, piercing mandibles. They are active predators of soft-bodied insects.

Brown lacewing adults are reddish brown. They have large, membranous, brown wings and long antennae with a long, thin body. They are smaller than the green lacewing.

The brown lacewing lays several hundred oval eggs per female on the undersides of leaves; the eggs are not on stalks like green lacewing eggs.

The larvae appear similar to green lacewing larvae. They are gray to brown and alligatorlike. They have large, sickle-shaped mandibles.

• About natural enemies (from Fruit Crop Ecology and
  Management)
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  enemies)