Sinuated spoonwing
The sinuated spoonwing is a lacewing with amazing back wings: they are long and thin like ribbons and end in a little spoon shape. When it flies, they wave behind it like streamers. It lives in the Balkans and Turkey.
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Fun facts
It only comes out when it is warmer than 17 degrees and there is almost no wind.
It flies in the daytime, from the middle of May until the end of June.
A female lays up to 70 eggs on the ground, early in the morning. They hatch after about three and a half weeks.
Most lacewing larvae hunt other insects, but its larvae say no to prey and drink water and plant sap instead.
Most asked questions about Sinuated spoonwing
?What does the spoonwing eat?
The adults eat flower pollen. The larvae drink water and plant sap.
?How big is the sinuated spoonwing?
Its body is about 16 millimetres long and its wings are about 55 millimetres across.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Nemoptera sinuata
- Group
- Other insects
- Family
- Nemopteridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Neuroptera > Nemopteridae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
- Also known as
- Thread-winged lacewing
Where the facts come from
- Nemoptera sinuata (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Charles J. Sharp. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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