
Lacewing Eggs - Family Berothidae or Chrysopidae?
I found several of these egg clusters hanging from the rotting roof of a porch, where termites have been an issue. The eggs appear to be on the end of a single stalk, or perhaps a twisted stalk...There was also an egg that looked like it had been laid horizontally along the stalk. It's hard to tell, but it looks like the eggs have hatched, so rearing them out is not an option. I am seeking help to narrow down the ID.
Habitat: Laid on the rotting roof of a porch in a rural area
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In Europe this would be an egg cluster (twisted stems indeed) of some Nineta sp. - the others deposit their eggs in quite different ways. In the US, according to Bugguide there would be only one sp. of Nineta, but you also have a lot of genera that we don't have and I don't know the eggs of these, so maybe there is some genus close to Nineta with the same balloons with twisted ropes config ?!
P.S. We don't have Berothidae where I live, so I've done some searching/reading just now. Seems that some Lomamyia spp. also have egg clusters like this, so with the eggs being so close to a termite infestation, that option makes much more sense than a rare Chrysopidae ... Posted 5 years ago, modified 5 years ago
I got most of my info from the discussions here:
https://bugguide.net/node/view/357112
https://bugguide.net/node/view/205944 Posted 5 years ago
Also, your other photo seems to show multiple twisted strands? Really tough! Posted 5 years ago, modified 5 years ago