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| any of various neuropterous insects, esp any of the families Chrysopidae (green lacewings) and Hemerobiidae (brown lacewings), having lacy wings and preying on aphids and similar pests | |
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Lacewing
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Example sentences
Attraction of two lacewing species to volatiles produced by host plants and aphid prey.
Effects of reduced rates of two insecticides on enzyme activity and mortality of an aphid and its lacewing predator.
Predaceous lacewing attacking pickleworm caterpillar.
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