Brown pine lacewing
Hemerobius stigma
The brown pine lacewing is a small brown insect with big, see-through wings full of fine veins, like lace. It lives among pine trees. It is a helpful hunter that eats tiny pests living on the pines.
Lives in
Europe, northern Asia and North America, in pine woods
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It is a gentle helper that eats plant pests.
What does it eat?
It eats tiny sap-sucking pests that live on pine trees.
How fast is it?
Brown pine lacewing about 3 km/h (1.9 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 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
It belongs to the brown lacewings, a group of lacewings that are brown instead of green.
2
People once took it to New Zealand to eat tiny pests on pine plantations.
3
It was first noticed in New Zealand in 1935, but it never managed to settle there.
you asked
Most asked questions about Brown pine lacewing
?What does the brown pine lacewing eat?
Tiny sap-sucking pests that live on pine trees.
?Is the brown pine lacewing harmful?
No. It is harmless to people and helps by eating pests.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Hemerobius stigma
- Group
- Other insects
- Family
- Hemerobiidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Neuroptera > Hemerobiidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, North America
Where the facts come from
- Hemerobius stigma (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 Slimguy. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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