lacewing

/leys-wing/US // ˈleɪsˌwɪŋ //UK // (ˈleɪsˌwɪŋ) //

蛉子,白蛉,蜻蛉,黄蛉

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : any of several insects of the family Chrysopidae, having delicate, lacelike wings and golden or copper-colored eyes, the larvae of which are predaceous on aphids and other small insects.

Between thirty and forty species of lacewing flies are known to occur in our own country.
The pretty lacewing knows what an appetite her ever hungry larvæ will have, and so she protects them against each other.
You see it looks a little like the lacewing larva, and it, too, belongs to the Neuroptera.
Lacewing-flies of the genus Chrysopa are commonly called golden-eye flies.
May says she supposes the larva of the lacewing is a little monster like that of the corydalus.