Blue eyes lacewing
Nymphes myrmeleonoides
The blue eyes lacewing is a large, delicate insect from Australia. Its four see-through wings are much longer than its body, and each wing ends in a white tip. Its babies are sneaky hunters that dig traps in the sand.
Lives in
New South Wales and Queensland in eastern Australia
Length
4 cm (1.6 in)
Wingspan
11 cm (4.3 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot sting.
What does it eat?
Its larvae dig pit traps in loose soil and catch small animals that tumble in.
How big is it?
How long is it?
How wide are its wings?
🍚as long as 7 grains of rice in a row✋wings as wide as your hand⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 69 seconds⚡moves 38 times its own body length every second
How big is Blue eyes lacewing compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Blue eyes lacewing about 5.5 km/h (3.4 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Its body can be up to 4 centimetres long.
2
With wings spread it can be 11 centimetres wide, wider than a big hand.
3
Its larvae look like antlions and make the same kind of funnel-shaped trap.
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Most asked questions about Blue eyes lacewing
?How big is the blue eyes lacewing?
Its body is up to 4 centimetres long and its wings up to 11 centimetres wide.
?What do blue eyes lacewing larvae do?
They dig pit traps in loose soil to catch small animals, just like antlions.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Nymphes myrmeleonoides
- Group
- Other insects
- Family
- Nymphidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Neuroptera > Nymphidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Nymphes myrmeleonides (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 The original uploader was MidgleyDJ at English Wikipedia .. CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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